Eyal Bitton

RABBI • CANTOR • COMPOSER • LYRICIST • SPEAKER
Building Jewish pride through music, words, and ideas.

Jewish Music & Cantorial Work

Sacred music, recordings
and liturgical resources
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Composition & Theatre

Musicals, original works & songs
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Teaching, Speaking & Writing

Lectures, articles & Jewish thought
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Videos

Recordings

High Holiday Memories

Moroccan/Sephardi Melodies for Cantor & Choir

Odecha

From the Hallel Service

Kol Nidre: Nouvelles Visions

Eyal Appears on Track 5

Lectures

Jewish Rock Stars

Jewish Rock Stars

Cantor Eyal Bitton takes a wild look at some legendary and sometimes outrageous Jewish rock stars, including Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, Gene Simmons, David Lee Roth, Bette Midler, and others. What makes them great? What makes them outrageous? And how Jewish are they?

Jewish TV Theme Songs

Jewish TV Theme Songs

Classic TV shows of the past gave us timeless TV theme songs, many of which were written by Jewish composers. With nostalgic video clips and sing-alongs, Cantor Eyal Bitton examines these memorable melodies and the talented people who wrote them.

Les Miz’s Genius Composer

Les Miz’s Genius Composer

Clips from Cantor Eyal Bitton’s fascinating musical lecture on the genius of Claude-Michel Schönberg, composer of Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre, and other works. With special guest, Michèle Tredger.

Jewish Women in Song

Jewish Women in Song

Michèle Tredger and Cantor Eyal Bitton present a musical lecture / recital featuring music made famous by a diverse array of gifted Jewish women such as Barbra Streisand, Dinah Shore, Bette Midler, Lesley Gore, Idina Menzel, and others.

Pop Music in Shul

Pop Music in Shul

Prayers set to songs by the Beatles, ABBA, John Denver, Broadway hits, Hollywood hits, and others. We’ve heard them. What do we think of them? Kosher? Not kosher? Find out in this fun and thought-provoking musical lecture by Cantor Eyal Bitton.

Canada’s Oldest Synagogue

Canada’s Oldest Synagogue

Cantor Eyal Bitton takes a look at the melodies of Canada’s oldest congregation, The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue. Established in 1768 in Montreal, the music of The Spanish and Portuguese reflects Canadian Jewish history and the effort to mix east with west, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, as well as old and new.

Articles

Am Israel vs B’nai Israel

Jewish History 100 Years From Now

What We Have Learned

The High Priest Waits For You

Rosh Hashanah and the Longing for Home

King David and Moral Responsibility

The Waters are Rising

Tikkun Olam, American Jewry, and The Giving Tree