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cantor

noun as in church leader

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Laurence Harris and his wife Ruth, the longtime cantor, raced to Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center as embers started to rain down , attempting to rescue what they could.

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Seven candles were lighted in honor of those who died, as well as first responders and others who helped to save victims; rabbis and cantors sang in Hebrew as the crowd held up battery-powered candles.

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The first talking picture, “The Jazz Singer,” starred Al Jolson as a cantor’s son who wanted to go pop.

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In Grades IV and V, they perform tests at a walk, trot, cantor and do lateral work.

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Have you heard the one about the cantor who can’t sing and the retired music teacher who walk into a bar?

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