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Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Lenny Mandel was Tevye, back when he was young.
August 27, 2026, 9:57 am
‘Preserve your memories’
A look back at what matters the most
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Nazis forced Jewish men to sit in the local synagogue as a professor read aloud from Mein Kampf. Next, the shul was set on fire.
August 20, 2026, 9:58 am
A picture at an exhibition
How my mother escaped Germany
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Lenny Mandel first played Tevye in 1986.
July 16, 2026, 9:57 am
Tevya in church
Everyone learns when you teach ‘Fiddler’
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Lenny Mandel, in this photo, both youngish and younger, always has been a musician.
June 18, 2026, 9:56 am
‘Feelin’ Groovy’
How a song can unlock memories
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
April 30, 2026, 9:58 am
The power of silence
Suicides, grief, and unspeakable support
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
This sign, on the beach at Cartagena, welcomes visitors to the Colombian city. (All photos courtesy of Lenny Mandel)
November 13, 2025, 9:54 am
A wedding in Cartagena
Bienaventurados los que vienen en nombre de Dios. No matter the language, welcome and feel the love
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Lenny Mandel as Pseudolus in “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.”
August 7, 2025, 9:57 am
You can’t make this stuff up
From Tevye to Thakur to near misadventures at Newark airport
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Lenny Mandel, wrapped in tallit and tefillin, davens overlooking Lake Lucerne.
July 24, 2025, 9:55 am
Why I lay tefillin
Or: It took awhile, but now I’m too scared to stop
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel models one of his chaplain shirts.
July 10, 2025, 9:57 am
Healing sickness, one laugh at a time
Our correspondent writes about what it’s like to be a chaplain
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
May 22, 2025, 9:57 am
With a woof woof here
Wherein our correspondent makes the case for a bark mitzvah
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Rabbi Mandel’s mother, Lotte Mandel, and his son, Wayne Mandel, stand over the turkey they cooked together.
November 27, 2024, 9:57 am
Teaching your children
Remembering a Thanksgiving dinner
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
This is Lenny Mandel’s photo in his Stuyvesant yearbook.
July 11, 2024, 9:58 am
‘Sounds like some story’
Wherein our correspondent is very glad that he kept his yearbook
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
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