Cantor Michael Zoosman (he/him/his) is a Certified Spiritual Care Practitioner with the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care/Association canadienne de soins spirituels (CASC/ACSS) and received his cantorial ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 2008. He sits as an Advisory Committee Member at Death Penalty Action and is the co-founder of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty.” The work of L'chaim has received international press across the world, including from the BBC, CNN, The New York Times, The Guardian, Fox News, News Nation, The Washington Post, Democracy Now!, The Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, The Jewish Forward, The Times of Israel, JTA, and Newsweek. Cantor Zoosman frequently contributes op-eds to The Jurist and Counterpunch, among others. The work of L’chaim also can be found on Substack at https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelzoosman.
A Jewish prison chaplain and psychiatric hospital chaplain, Cantor Zoosman currently serves as a Spiritual Health Practitioner (Chaplain) for various mental health outreach teams, working with individuals in the community living with severe mental health disorders and addiction. He lives with his family in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His opinions are his own.
