Eight Stories. Eight Lights. Fifty Years of Change.
December 10, 2025
UPDATE: This promotion has ended.
Hanukkah invites us to notice how small lights can transform the darkness around them. This year, as we mark 50 years of women in the American cantorate, that metaphor feels especially resonant.
Each story in Voices of Change: 50 Years of Women in the American Cantorate is one of those lights—a testament to resilience, creativity, and the enduring power of the human voice to expand and renew our heritage. Each of the trailblazing women profiled has, like a shamash that kindles every candle, lit the way for hundreds of others who now shape the cantorate and the sound of Jewish worship.
Voices of Change book cover
“We’ve added half of the human voice back into the liturgy, back into the study of Torah, and back into the way the messages resonate.”
— Cantor Barbara Ostfeld, first woman ordained as a cantor
To celebrate, we’re giving away 50 hard-bound book copies of the collection. 25 winners will receive a book for themselves and one for a cantor or clergy member (or congregation) who has been a light in their lives.
**This giveaway has concluded**. And may your Hanukkah shine a little brighter this year, one story, one song, one light at a time!
Winners will be contacted by email on Dec. 19.
