Cantors Assembly

{{infobox organization

| name = Cantors Assembly

| headquarters = Fairlawn, Ohio, United States"[http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2013/131/959/2013-131959506-0b00c68e-9.pdf Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax]". Cantors Assembly Inc. Guidestar. December 31, 2013.

| coordinates = {{coord|41.126087|-81.6092152|display=inline, title}}

| tax_id = 13-1959506

| status = 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization

| employees = 6

| employees_year = 2023

| volunteers = 75

| volunteers_year = 2023

| revenue = $720,558

| revenue_year = 2013

| expenses = $863,193

| expenses_year = 2013

| founded = 1947

| leader_name =

| leader_title = President

| leader_name2 =

| leader_title2 = Executive Director

| endowment = $81,829

| website = {{URL|www.cantors.org}}

}}

Cantors Assembly is the international association of hazzanim (cantors) affiliated with Conservative Judaism. It was founded in 1947 to develop the profession of the hazzan, to foster the fellowship and welfare of hazzanim, and to establish a conservatory for hazzanim.{{cite web |url=http://www.cantors.org/ca_history1947-1972.php |title=Cantors Assembly |accessdate=2011-02-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718045020/http://www.cantors.org/ca_history1947-1972.php |archivedate=2011-07-18 }} The latter goal was realized in 1952 with the establishment of the Cantors Institute at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. This Institute later developed into the H. L. Miller Cantorial School of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

Cantors Assembly first allowed women to join in 1990; women have been ordained as hazzanim in Conservative Judaism since 1987.{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/19/nyregion/a-bar-to-women-as-cantors-is-lifted.html | title=A Bar to Women as Cantors is Lifted| newspaper=The New York Times| date=1990-09-19| last1=Goldman| first1=Ari L.}}

In 2013, Nancy Abramson became the first female president of Cantors Assembly.{{Cite web |url=https://www.cantors.org/our-soon-to-be-president-hazzan-alisa-pommerantz-boro//# |title=The Cantors Assembly |access-date=2013-06-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130711191545/http://www.cantors.org/message_from_our_president/# |archive-date=2013-07-11 |url-status=dead }} In 2017, Alisa Pomerantz-Boro became the second female president.{{Cite web | url=https://www.cantors.org/our-soon-to-be-president-hazzan-alisa-pommerantz-boro/ | title=Our New President, Hazzan Alisa Pomerantz-Boro| date=2017-05-12}}

Cantors Assembly is the largest body of hazzanim in the world.{{cite web |url=http://www.cantors.org/ca_aboutus.php |title=Cantors Assembly |accessdate=2010-11-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110326010108/http://www.cantors.org/ca_aboutus.php |archivedate=2011-03-26 }} Cantors Assembly's mission statement says that it serves its members and congregations while also helping "preserve and enhance the traditions of our people".