Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1998 — Page 2

IND 2 September 23. 1998 Author Diamant to visit Beth-EI

Author and lecturer Anita Diamant will visit Congregation Beth-EI Zedeck Oct. 9 through Oct. 11 as scholar-in-residence. Diamant will speak at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, on "Making Shabbos in the Real World:

Persons unable to attend services for the High Holy Days can hear the Yom Kippur Eve (Kol Nidre) service on WICR, 88.7 FM, at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday Sept. 29, from Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation. The station will broadcast the Wed nesday mom ing Yom Kippur service at 8:30 a m. The services for Rosh Hashanah also were bmadcast at those hours by WICR on

Confessions of a Modern Jew," following services. The event will include a shabbat dinner for the whole family. After dinner, while Ms. Diamant converses with the adults, children will participate in a shabbat program de-

Rosh Hashanah Eve and morning, Sept. 20 and 21.. Persons who would like to borrow a copy of Gates of Repentance in which to follow the Yom Kippur services may contact Sandy Shepard in the IHC main office, 255-6647, ext. 203. These broadcasts have made High Holy Day services from IHC available for several years for shut-ins and others unable to go to the synagogue.

signed especially for them. The dinner fee is $13 for adults, $6 for children ages 2 to 12. "The Big Secret — the 4,000 Year History of Conversion to Judaism," will be Diamant's d'var Torah during shabbat services at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 10-. Following services, there will be a box lunch and discussion on interfaith marriage and conversion. The box lunch fee is $6 per person. Diamant will read from her new novel, "The Red Tent," at 9:30 am. Sunday, Oct. 11. The novel is based on the biblical story of Dinah, with a discussion on the process of writing midrash as faction. A book signing will follow. This program is free. Other books by Diamant include "Choosing a Jewish Life," "Living a Jewish Life," "The New Jewish Baby Book" and "The New Jewish Wedding Book." Her articles have been published in the Boston Globe Magazine, Hadassah and Self. She lives in Newton, Mass., with her husband and daughters. AH programs are open to the public, for more information or to register for the programs, contact the synagogue office at 253-3441.

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Temple has new full-time cantor

SOUTH BEND — Temple Beth-EI here has a student cantor, Janet Leuchter, who is pursuing a master's degree in sacred music at Hebrew Union College in New York City. Rabbi Morley Feinstein, quoted in the South Bend Tribune, said the synagogue has had full-time cantors before, so Leuchter is part of the development here of a renewed interest in tradition, with musical liturgy an important part of prayer. Leuchter is one of the student cantors filling in until the temple can build up the dollars to hire a permanent, fulltime cantor. She is the second student cantor at the temple, serving the congregation once a month and during the High Holidays. She began her service in South Bend in September 1997, and will continue through May 1999, Feinstein said. Leuchter grew up in Vineland, N.J., where her parents, Conservative Jews, were active more in Zionism and refugee resettlement than in synagogue life. She studied piano and guitar, sang classical oratorios, opera and klezmer music. She studied history at the University of Pennsylvania and did not begin training to become a cantor until she was in her 40s. Her growing interest in synagogue life led her into the world of cantorial music. She appreciates the historical context in which she finds herself. She has committed herself through research, to preserving some of the Yiddish religious songs that were

widely current before the turn of the century, but are little known today.She says she has been able to identify only

about 100 songs among the far larger body of music she is

certain existed.

Leuchter says she will contribute to Jewish knowledge through her master's degree project of creating a concert of Yiddish religious songs that will appeal to a modern audience while retaining their

original integrity.

She sees this effort as her part in rescuing part of a culture that was murdered in the

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