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Steven Weiss

Dec 13, 2016, 8:55 PM

Hanukkah as a Battlecry for Justice and Equality

Here’s a story for you. Once upon a time, a long, long time ago – 2200 years ago, in fact – there lived an evil, tyrannical king who ruled over the province of Judea. He had such a high opinion of...

Sep 20, 2016, 8:41 PM

Acts of Lovingkindness for the New Year

Something wonderful appeared on my Facebook feed the other day. Maybe you happened to catch it. It was a story of lovingkindness, of gemilut chasidim. But I’ll let the amateur reporter who recorded the whole incident in real time via social...

Jul 13, 2016, 5:22 PM

Remembering Elie Wiesel Through His Love of Music

As we remember Elie Wiesel – memorializing one of our century’s greatest Jewish thinkers and humanitarians whom President Obama called “the conscience of the world” – we pay tribute to one of the most prominent Holocaust survivors whose message...

About Me

Cantor Steven Weiss, the Cantor and Director of Education at Congregation Sha’aray Shalom in Hingham, Massachusetts, is President of the American Conference of Cantors (ACC).