Cantor Jeff Warschauer

Cantor Jeff Warschauer, of Congregation Or Chadash in Flemington, NJ, is ahazzan, educator and highly accomplished musician with a sweet, soulful voice and a friendly, engaging presence. Ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary, Jeff is a faculty member of Columbia University and JTS and has served congregations in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maine and Vermont.

Jeff is also internationally renowned as a leading klezmer mandolinist, an innovator in the development of klezmer guitar style, a Yiddish and Hebrew singer, and a skillful and inspirational educator. One half of the Strauss/Warschauer Duo, he was a longtime member of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and has been featured in concert and on recordings with Itzhak Perlman, Joel Grey and the late Theodore Bikel. Jeff is also a Founding Artistic Director of KlezKanada.