Cantor Jordan Shai Franzel

09/11/2024

After much technical confusion and betrayal (Facebook changed how one streams live to a Page), Shabbat Morning Music and Meditation will return this Saturday, 11:00 AM. On the Congregation Or Ami page. Check it out.

09/04/2024

This should be interesting....

07/11/2024

06/30/2024

Proud and honored to be included in the new URJ Shireinu: Volume 2 amongst so many talented composers. Thanks Transcontinental Music! Here's the song:

A praise of God for creating the world with wisdom, especially for fashioning the sources of light.Soon to be published in the URJ Shireinu Volume 2Sheet mus...

06/19/2024

AI writes music now...

folk rock country influenced raw song. Listen and make your own with Suno.

04/15/2024

My teaching on the Seder Plate...

A mystical explanation of the Passover Seder Plate.

01/03/2024

https://youtu.be/E0XX3FGMs6U

A setting of the evening prayer, Maria Arabism, based on Charles Mingus's "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat". An examination of the connections between Nusach Hat'filah ...

12/29/2023

A sentiment expressed by Yehuda Ha-Levi in Spain, a thousand years ago, My Heart is in the East - Libi V'mizrach is a song that speaks to the sense of yearning to be in Israel while being "chained" to the diaspora. At this time especially, our collective hearts are with Israel while we may be living somewhere else.

An animating video for the song, "My Heart is in the East" by Cantor Jordan S Franzel. Words are from Yehuda Ha-Levi who lived in Spain.

12/15/2023

A new song for peace...

A video collage, with Hebrew lyrics and translation, of Cantor Jordan S Franzel's setting of Rabbi Nathan's Prayer of Peace. The text comes from Likutei T'fi...

12/06/2023

My Chanukah song...from a long time ago

An original song for Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of LightsWritten from the perspective of the Shamash, the helping candle.

11/22/2023

Check out my new song, Ani Shalom - I Am Peace

A video for the song, Ani Shalom - I Am Peace, written by Cantor Jordan S Franzel. Based on Psalm 120, the refrain "Ani Shalom" is demanding peace for all hu...

10/25/2023

Because the world needs a musical setting of Rebbe Nachman's Tikkun K'lali (complete remedy)...10 Psalms of Fun = Soul Technology.