Cantor Josh Ehrlich
Schedule for Visit:
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Friday, March 3 5:30 p.m. - Wine and Cheese 6 p.m.: Shir Shabbat with Cantor Ehrlich and Rabbi Wechsler, and the Shir Shabbat band Saturday, March 4 10:30 a.m. Cantor Ehrlich will visit the Family Service 11:15 a.m. Musaf davening Please Note: The gym will be open from 12 - 2 p.m. with supervision to enable parents to join in the post-kiddush teaching and conversation.
Conversation with Rabbi Gruenberg 6:15-8 p.m. Havdalah (Approx. 6:26 p.m.) and Open Jam Session |
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About Cantor Josh Ehrlich
Hailed by “Godfather of A Cappella” Deke Sharon (Glee, Pitch Perfect) as “dynamic, bold, and audacious,” Josh Ehrlich is a composer, lyricist, accompanist, music director, music educator and soon-to-be-cantor based in New York City. Josh has written hundreds of musical theatre orchestrations and a cappella arrangements for ensembles all over New York and Israel. He made his Off-Broadway compositional debut in 2017 with The Imbible: Day Drinking, which ran at New World Stages for three years. In 2021, The Cantors Assembly published Josh’s The Choral Torah: Five Books in Four Parts, a collection of fifty-four eclectic a cappella settings of biblical text (one composition for every parashah.) Josh founded and directs The Choral Torah Collective, a choir of Judaeo-musical educators that performs and promotes musical and biblical literacy at communities from Highland Park, NJ to Highland Park, IL. With a Bachelors in Linguistics from Yale University and a Masters in Composition from Rutgers University, Josh has worked as the music director for Golda Och Academy, the Leffell School, and Camp Ramah in the Berkshires. He currently studies at the H.L. Miller Cantorial School of the Jewish Theological Seminary, from which he will graduate in May, and is the Student Hazzan at New City Jewish Center. As a cantor, he hopes to continue his mission of using fresh harmony to reanimate our most ancient words.
