Gen. 28:10–11: “And Yaakov left Be’er Sheva and went toward Charan. And he encountered ‘the place’ and slept there…” This “place” is none other than the mountain called Moriah, better known as the ...

Yaakov “Yanky” Lemmer’s mellifluous tenor is heard most often in the Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York, where he serves as the head cantor, singing the liturgies and leading prayers.

Two Hasidic cantors sang the Star-Spangled Banner for medical workers outside NYU Langone Medical Center on 33rd Street on Tuesday, according to a video posted on Twitter by a Chabad spokesman. Aron ...

After nearly a half-century, Lincoln Square Synagogue on the Upper West Side is getting a new cantor. Cantor Yaakov Lemmer, a native of Brooklyn’s fervently Orthodox Borough Park neighborhood, is ...