[HANASHIR:5971] Re: Edelweiss at a Bat Mitzvah service

[Rachelle and Howard Shubert <notfranz...>]

As much as we would like to please and touch our congregants with music they
relate to, cantorial soloists/cantors are not club singers obliged to do
requests. You might point out that having it sung by a family friend at the
reception would make it even more meaningful.  Suggest one or two of the
beautiful Bar/Bat Mitzvah songs from our new songwriters as an alterative.
Does your synagogue have a policy about the use of secular songs in a
service?  If so, that would make it easier to say no on the rabbi's
authority.

Rachelle


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