Cantor Katie Oringel

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Cantor Katie Oringel

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Work Experience

Temple B'nai Israel - Clearwater, FL (July 2020 - Present)

Cantor

  • Developed digital methods of teaching, singing and creating community
  • Engaged professional and amateur musicians to enhance prayer experiences
  • Created interactive, online adult education
  • Recorded and edited music videos with congregants


Temple Sinai - Toronto, ON (July 2009 - June 2019)

Cantor and Youth Director

  • Created immersive, community-based B'nei Mitzvah program
  • Fostered meaningful professional relationships with colleagues and community leaders
  • Inspired teens and adults through the joy of Torah chanting
  • Conducted youth, multi-generational and adult choirs
  • Crafted contemporary High Holiday services using 'best practices' in theatre, education and community building
  • Celebrated Shabbat weekly with preschool
  • Supervised youth advisor and teen, peer mentors
  • Designed snowbird programming for members in Florida
  • Engaged young families in creative holiday experiences
  • Created an International Jewish teen travel program


Education

2019 - Spertus Institute/Northwestern University (Chicago, IL)

Certificate in Jewish leadership


2014 - Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion (New York, NY)

Certificate in Jewish Education specializing in Adolescents and

Emerging Adults


2009 - Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion (New York, NY)

Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music

Master of Sacred Music & Ordination

Thesis: A Polyphonic Canvas: Jewish Music and the Art of Marc Chagall


2004 - Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)

Bachelor of Arts in Music and Religion - Magna cum laude

Areas of Expertise

  • Creative prayer experiences
  • Team player
  • Encouraging congregational participation
  • Communication
  • Praying with intention
  • Teaching Torah chanting
  • Guitar/song leading
  • Leadership development
  • Empowering lay musicians
  • Building relationships
  • Youth prayer

Music and Performance

  • Hebrew in Harmony, Behrman House  |  curricular recordings
  • Carnegie Hall, Jerusalem Theatre, Lincoln Center, North American Jewish Choral
  • Festival; Zamir Choral Foundation  |  soloist
  • Thailand Progressive Jewish Community |  guest cantor
  • Beit Shalom, Shinonome Choir; Japan |  guest soloist
  • Canadian Reform Rabbinical Conference |  guest cantor

Publications

  • “How My Kippah is Both a Symbol of Pride and a Target for Hate”, Reform Judaism Blog
  • “Kehillah Leads to Community”, eJewish Philanthropy
  • “Sukkat Shlomecha: A Time to Tear. A Time to Sew.”, eJewish Philanthropy
  • “Creating Successful Tot Shabbats: How We Did It”, URJ Blog
  • “Canadian Thanksgiving: A Turkey in the Sukkah?”, Reform Judaism Blog

Associations and Outreach

  • American Conference of Cantors
  • North American Jewish Choral Foundation
  • Faculty: URJ Camp Coleman, Camp George and Six Points Creative Arts Academy
  • Tampa Bay JCC & Federations, Hope Barnett Cohen Leadership Institute
  • Reform Jewish Educator Title Granting Commission
  • Clergy Curlers of Greater Toronto; Frozen Chosen
  • Baycrest Hospital; Seniors holiday programming
  • URJ Biennial; various roles
  • Harold Green Jewish Theatre; consultant
  • Joint Commission of Worship, Music and Religious Living
  • Talmud chevruta with Rabbi Lawrence Englander
  • Union for Progressive Judaism - Australia & New Zealand

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