German synagogue key returning home 86 years later
Cantor Jennifer Bern-Vogel was used to hearing her mother tell the story. On the evening of Nov. 9, 1938, her mother, then ...
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A church fired its music director for being gay. Then something surprising happened.
Fred Szczepanski — affectionately known as “Mr. Fred” to fellow parishioners — served as the music director at Traverse ...
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Key to a synagogue destroyed on Kristallnacht returns home
On the evening of Nov. 9, 1938, her mother, then Marianne Katzenstein, who was 16 at the time, was in her family’s synagogue ...
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86 years after Kristallnacht, German congregation gets back key to destroyed synagogue
The relic, one of only two items that survived, was kept by a young girl who escaped the Nazis on the Kindertransport; now it ...
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A survivor kept the key from a German synagogue destroyed on Kristallnacht. 86 years later, the relic is returning home.
On the evening of Nov. 9, 1938, her mother, then Marianne Katzenstein, who was 16 at the time, was in her family’s synagogue ...
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Former national striker Quah Kim Song to marry Workers' Party chair Sylvia Lim in January
Lim was a member and cantor in that church's choir, according to the Catholic News in 2014. "We have been together for 12 years. "It has been blissful, blessed and wonderful, (so) we decided to ...
A survivor kept the key from a German synagogue destroyed on Kristallnacht
Like the key she kept, the remarkable story of Bern-Vogel’s mother did not end in 1938. The following year, she and her ...
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St. Francis fires longtime music director: Choir, others picket in protest
St. Francis Catholic Church worshippers at mass encountered picketers outside the building, protesting what they said was an ...
Cathedral church in Bismarck installing new organ
Right now, work is happening to improve the sound at one of Bismarck’s catholic churches. Workers are installing a new organ ...
Traditional medieval Red Mass marks beginning of court year
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The 41st annual “Red Mass,” a spiritual event that asks for guidance and strength during the coming ...
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Vigil of All Saints
Psalms of Compline: The lead cantor, who should be sitting on one side of the chapel/church, stands up and sings the antiphon of the first psalm, as well as the first line of the psalm.
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St. Paul’s Lutheran Church celebrates 50th anniversary of Abbott & Sieker organ
going back to composer Johann Sebastian Bach who composed hundreds of works ranging from cantatas to oratorios as resident church musician, or cantor, for the major German Lutheran churches of his ...