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From the time he was a boy,
Cantor Elihu Feldman loved cantorial music. He began formal voice training when
he was very young under the guidance of an operatic coach.
His cantorial experiences
have been varied. At age 17 he performed High Holiday services at a synagogue
in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York. He was the cantor of the Hillcrest Jewish
Center, also in Queens, which has a congregation of over a thousand families.
Cantor Feldman was with the Conservative Synagogue of Riverdale, New York,
where the current chancellor and past chancellor of the Jewish Theological
Seminary were congregants. He has served as Cantor of B'nai Shalom, the Jewish
Center of West Orange, for the past 22 years. The cantor also performed
Passover services for the United States Marine Corps in Son Juan, Puerto Rico,
in the main synagogue in Rome and in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Cantor Feldman is learned
in his professions. He has a Cantorial diploma from the Belz Cantorial School
of Yeshiva University. Cantor Feldman also received a Bachelor of Arts from
Yeshiva College and Rabbinic Ordination from its Rabbinical School. He has two
Masters Degrees and a Doctorate from Columbia University in special education.
When not performing his
cantorial duties at B'nai Shalom, he is currently assigned to the Chancellor's
Office of the New York City Board of Education in the Office of Monitoring and
School Improvement. It is here where he has responsibility for the special
education programs in the Borough of Manhattan.
He has served the needs of
special children for many years. He has been a member of Central Headquarters staff
at the New York City Board of Education for fifteen years. Prior to this he was
the Executive Director of the Eden II Institute for Autistic Children in Staten
Island, and the Director of Children's Programs at the Rockland County
Association for the Help of Retarded Children and the Bergen-Passaic Unit of
the Association for Retarded Children. He also served as project director of
the Research Foundation for the City College of New York that provided
curriculum for the Television Children's Workshop, producers of Sesame Street.
Last year he was honored by
the Chancellor's Office as one of the outstanding administrators in the Board
of Education. The cantor has served on several Commissioner's Task Forces and
has been a guest or Gracy Mansion at the invitation of Mayor Edward Koch.
The cantor has been married for 27 years to the lovely Marcia Weiss and has three terrific children, Saul, 26, Alexander, 19, and Vivian, 11, and a daughter-in-law Leah. The cantor has a grandchild whose name is Esther.