One of the prayers the congregation sang, the announcer said, was the Mi Shebeirach, a prayer for healing by Debbie Friedman, who translated the words and wrote the music. There was a particular line ...

To a broken generation, Debbie Friedman delivered a mystical truth: You don’t have to be cured to be healed. She, who suffered for so long from elusive, debilitating neurological illnesses that ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Since her untimely death in 2011, the influence ...

Debbie Friedman was eulogized at her funeral service Tuesday by friends, rabbis, fans and fellow musicians, both in words and through the songs she composed and sang and which transformed Jewish ...

Help us find the courage to make our lives a blessing, And let us say, Amen. So goes the first verse of “Mi shebeirach,” a song written and composed by Debbie Friedman (with Drorah Setel) and released ...

Debbie Friedman was eulogized at her funeral by friends, rabbis and fellow musicians in words and through the songs she composed and sang. LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Singer-songwriter Debbie Friedman was ...

Composer, Jewish liturgist, singer-songwriter, prayer leader extraordinaire, member of the lgbt community—Debbie touched our lives in ways too many to count. It was Debbie Friedman who taught the ...

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Debbie Friedman is credited with bringing a more folksy, sing-along style to American congregations. "For more than 40 years Debbie’s words and music were the voice, the expression of all we value and ...

The poet-laureate of the Jewish people, Hayim Nahman Bialik, once wrote a poem in which he extolled someone who died “before his time and before anyone’s time. He had one more song to sing, but now ...

Singer-songwriter Debbie Friedman was eulogized at her funeral by friends, rabbis and fellow musicians in words and through her songs. Her acoustic guitar lay on top of her casket during Tuesday's ...