Word: cantorã
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Hillel’s noble effort at a welcoming ceremony is undercut each year by the cantor??€™s hijacking of the traditional tunes we know by heart. In their place, he substitutes unfamiliar and operatic renditions, ostensibly of the specific High Holiday melodies. Now, we’re the first to admit that our Hebrew is far from fluent: much of the Gates of Repentance prayerbook remains a mystery to us. We glance around quizzically at our more devout brethren during services—what is the thing when they bend their knees and bob their heads...
...Cantor??€™s undergraduate years at Harvard, which coincided with perhaps the most tumultuous period in the history of the University, are also reflected in the novel, as four of the six Great Neck kids move to Cambridge for college...
Over lunch, Cantor discussed the relationship between the fiction and reality of Great Neck and about Cantor??€™s time at Harvard...
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