Debbie Friedman Funeral Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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DEBBIE FRIEDMAN, deeply felt.
Debbie Friedman was a Jewish Liturgy evolutionary who took Jewish prayer and made it assessable through music and song. She was beloved by many, including Rabbi Stan Levy of the B'nai Horin, Children of Freedom Community in Los Angeles. It was through Stan, my rabbi, that I came to appreciate the work of Debbie. She would play music, sing songs, and add her wisdom to our high holiday services
over the years.
She was cordial to me and warm as we came to know each other. I would photograph numbers of the B'nai Horin High Holiday services, including some with Debbie. http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1750192
Debbie wss part of numbers of the services
at B'nai Horin High Holiday services.
She was kind to me.
"She created the songtrack to our lives."
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4:28 am
January 10, 2011
Online memorial service for Debbie Friedman scheduled for Sunday night [RECORDED VIDEO]
BY JEWISHJOURNAL.COM
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[UPDATE] This is a recording of a live broadcast from Sunday night, January 9, 2011.
The JCC of Manhattan will broadcast a live memorial service at 5pm PST tonight to remember the late Debbie Friedman.
Friedman, a popular singer and songwriter who is widely credited with reinvigorating synagogue music, died Sunday after being hospitalized in Orange County for several days with pneumonia. She was in her late 50s. Funeral services, open to the public, will be held Tuesday, Jan. 11 at 11 a.m. at Temple Beth Sholom, 2625 N. Tustin Ave. Santa Ana, CA 92705. Phone: 714-628-4600
The memorial service had been originally scheduled as a healing service, but the JCC changed its plans after the unfortunate turn of events.
For more information on Debbie Friedman, visit JewishJournal.com/debbie_friedman.
have received information via my own personal networks about Jewish singer and songwriter Debbie Friedman’s condition. She has a case of pneumonia that is not responding to medication.
Her condition become worse since it was first reported yesterday. She is now in an induced coma, and family members are asking the Jewish community to pray for her.
Friedman’s most famous prayer is one for healing of body and soul. May we all say it for her:
ccording to The Jewish Journal, "Friedman is reportedly sedated and on a respirator, according to an email sent Wednesday from the West Coast office of the Union for Reform Judaism. The email asked that prayers be said on Friedman’s behalf, as well as for her mother, sister and aunt.
Debbie Friedman, "An immensely popular singer and songwriter, is widely credited with reinvigorating synagogue music by introducing a more folksy, sing-along style to American congregations. In 2007, she was appointed to the faculty of the Reform movement’s cantorial school in a sign that her style had gained mainstream acceptance. She is best known for her composition “Mi Shebeirach,” a prayer for healing that is sung in many North American congregations.
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Service celebrates life of songwriter Debbie Friedman
By JORDANA HORN
01/11/2011 04:42
Hundreds turned out in person and thousands on-line to mourn the passing of beloved American Jewish songstress.
NEW YORK – What was originally billed as a healing service became a memorial service Sunday night at the Manhattan Jewish Community Center, as hundreds turned out in person and thousands on-line to mourn the passing of beloved American Jewish songwriter Debbie Friedman.
“This is not a funeral,” JCC Manhattan Rabbi Joy Levitt told attendees, both to those crowded into the JCC’s gym and those watching on a simultaneous Internet broadcast.
“There will be no eulogy, or words of tribute.”
Instead, Levitt said, the group would be serving as virtual shomrim – those who guard a body before its burial – paying tribute to Friedman’s life through song.
It was estimated that 3,000 people watched the service on the Internet, JCC organizers said. A virtual tribute carried on simultaneously with the service, as Friedman fans and friends posted loving messages on the service’s chat stream, Facebook and Twitter page while watching.
One observer noted on Twitter in typical text for the website, “hundreds of ppl sharing their stories, typing ‘amen’ after every sung prayer, old friends reuniting in the chat stream. powerful.”
In the gymnasium itself, tears flowed freely among participants, who held tealight candles, and swayed back and forth with the music, which included well-known Friedman works like “Mi Shebayrach” and “L’chi Lach.”
The group ranged in age from babies sleeping in car seats and child carriers to elderly couples. As they wept, participants (at one point, including Mandy Patinkin, famed actor and singer of “Mamaloshen”) sang with the song leaders, who included Central Synagogue Senior Cantor Angela Warnick Buchdahl.
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