Vera Broekhuysen

Cantor, Educator, Officiant

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  • Cantor Vera Broekhuysen
  • Recordings
    • Cantorial Settings and Recitatives
    • Congregational Music, Shabbat and Weekday
    • Cabaret
    • Jewish Folksong and Art Song
    • World Folksong
    • Videos
  • Lifecycle Officiating
    • Testimonials
  • Original Work
    • Original Music
    • Original Texts
      • D’vars (sermons)
        • Finding Power in Speech and Silence, Rosh HaShanah II, 2025 (5786)
        • Fear narrows our options; grief helps us choose life. Rosh HaShanah II, 5785 (2024)
        • Immersing, emerging and coming home: Yom Kippur 5783
        • Leaving loneliness, coming into community: Kol Nidre 5783
        • Welcome: Rosh HaShanah I 5783
        • Shabbat shabbaton and sh’mitah: rescuing life in a burning world, Rosh HaShanah 1, 5782
        • “Pause, don’t freeze,” Yom Kippur 5781 (2020)
        • Who lives? who dies? Who acts on your story? Rosh Hashanah I, 5781
        • “We carry our people in our bones” B’shallach 5780/2020
        • Sh’mita: The Year of Letting Go (2019)
        • “Our coming together tonight is an act of peace”: d’var for Peace Shabbat 2018
        • The Geir Without and Within: 1st day Rosh Hashanah, 5779 (2018)
        • Ki Hinei Kachomeir: desiring our yeitzer, for Kol Nidrei 5779 (2018)
        • Acharei Mot (April 2014)
      • Midrash
        • Scattered threads of light: a midrash for B’reishit
        • The Angel and the World’s Dominion
        • Cain and Abel
      • Poetry
        • Cardamom in my Coffee
        • Daybreak on Route 2
        • Erev Yom Ha’atzma’ut
        • Old hag am I
        • Qaddish Yatom
        • Song of the Loom
        • The Earth is Crying (Etude for Elul 5785)
        • To the lawmakers
        • Voyage of the Dawn Treader
        • What does grief look like?
  • Student resources
    • Shabbat at home, b’rakhot (blessings), z’mirot (songs) and Havdalah
    • Shabbat morning liturgy
    • Torah trope (Shabbat)
    • Haftarah trope
    • Keshet Te’amim recordings
      • Keshet Te’amim: Shabbat
      • Keshet Te’amim: Haftarah
      • Keshet Te’amim: High Holidays
    • High Holy Day Readings
      • High Holy Day Torah aliyot
      • Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Haftarah
      • Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Haftarah
      • Yom Kippur Haftarah
    • Reishith Binah (Hebrew Crash Course, NJOP, level 1)
    • Individual student pages
      • June 13th, 2026
      • April 25th, 2026
      • February 28th, 2026
      • January 10th, 2026
      • December 13th, 2025
      • December 6th, 2025
      • July 12th, 2025
      • June 14th, 2025
      • May 31st, 2025
      • May 4th, 2024
      • April 6th, 2024
      • March 2nd, 2024
      • Temple Emanu-El Adult Trope Class, Winter/Spring 2018
        • May 19th, 2018
        • Trope class fall 2018
        • Trope class graduation, June 2nd 2018
      • May 7th, 2016
        • Yom Kippur Leyning
  • Social justice and immigrant advocacy
    • “Cantor seeks justice in Guatemala,” February 2020
    • Connecting the Passover Story to the Border Today
    • Kinot and Kintsugi
    • Sanctuary: a Jewish perspective
    • Sanctuary Network Press Release, Personal Remarks
    • Statement in support of Syrian refugees
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Original Work

I have been blessed to learn from the music and writings of many, many great creative minds. I am also inspired by Jewish tradition and texts, to create work of my own.

Original Music

Original Texts

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