Part two of my mini-series featuring the righteous women of the holy land.

Elana Rozenfeld is a cantor, performer, teacher, songwriter and theatre artist, who grew up teacher in musical theatre, jazz, chazzanut (traditional cantorial singing) and Yeshiva music, while also having a secret love of all things Sephardic. After receiving her BFA at the Tisch School of the Arts in NYU, focusing on solo performance, she entered the HL Miller Cantorial School at JTS to develop mastery of her Jewish musical traditions.  Since then, she has served as cantor at Park Avenue Synagogue in NYC and Congregation Shirat Hayam in Swampscott, MA.  Elana also served as the interim director of the School for Jewish Music at Hebrew College in Newton, MA.  Today, Elana lives in Kiryat Tivon, Israel, with her husband and three children, enjoying bein ...