Cantor Tamara Wolfson

Cantor Tamara gained s’michah (cantorial ordination) at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in 2018. She trained there for five years, a training which included much of learning which a Rabbi would undergo as well as the specialist training for a Cantor. Having gained s’michah Tamara moved right away to Britain from her native America to become Cantor at the Ark (Northwood and Pinner Liberal) Synagogue and the Kehillah North London Synagogue. She became Cantor at Alyth (North Western Reform) Synagogue in 2020 from where she joined us at EHRS in January 2024.
Cantor Tamara is our Music Director as well as our Cantor and will also fulfil many of the pastoral, service leading and teaching duties that our Rabbis fulfil, just as is the case with the ordained cantors of Finchley Reform and Sinai Leeds Reform Synagogues. She brings her deep expertise and enthusiasm for Jewish traditional and contemporary music to our Synagogue. Cantor Tamara is married to Rabbi Anna Wolfson and together they have son Jonah.