CANTOR ALISA FORMAN, DMin

• Charismatic song leader
• Engaging, spirited, and collaborative worship leader
• Intellectually stimulating and experienced master teacher
• Stirring and precise Torah chanter
• Innovative and vitalizing choir leader
• Compassionate, warm, and approachable pastoral counselor

• Offering sermons and conducting adult education classes and Torah study online and in-person
• Chanting over 1300 verses of Torah from scroll a year and chanting from all Megillot
• Leading Conservative, Reconstructionist, Reform Shabbat and Holiday services online and in-person
• Facilitating Rosh Chodesh groups
• Directing adult volunteer choirs, junior choirs, and teen ensembles
• Creating and conducting programs such as “Shabbat Alive” and “Freedom Shabbat”
• Coordinating and implementing Religious School music programs
• Creating, producing, and directing Purim shpiels

• Coordinator and participant in Interfaith Community Thanksgiving Services, Beverly Hills, FL, 2018-23
• Featured speaker/performer Yom HaShoah Commemoration, Beverly Hills, FL, 2019
• Participant in ceremony honoring the Four Chaplains, Vero Beach, FL, 2018
• Discussion leader for Jewish Film Festival and Continued Education Programs, FL, 2017
• Leader of Women’s Seders, NJ and FL, 2008 - 2019
• Member of New Jersey Cantor’s Choir Ensemble, 2005 - 2016
• Featured Cantor for joint Selichot services with five local congregations, 2011 - 2014
• Soloist/choir conductor for community Holocaust commemoration, Lakewood, Howell, NJ, 2005-2016
• Music leader for PJ Library Chanukah program, Lakewood, NJ, 2014
• Guest Cantor, B’nai Israel Congregation, Toms River, NJ, 2006, 2013, 2014
• Participating clergy, songleader, performer for Community Israel Rally, Toms River, NJ, July 2014
• Choir conductor/music coordinator for Debbie Friedman Memorial Concert, Toms River, NJ, 2011
• Guest Cantor on Cunard Cruise Line, Chanukah 2009
• Conductor of children’s choir and singer with Debbie Friedman in concert, October 2009
• Guest artist for community Yom HaShoah commemoration, Flemington, NJ, 2007 & 2008
• Soloist opening ceremony Blue Claw Stadium Jewish Federation Community Day, Lakewood, NJ, 2005
• Conductor of choir at Interfaith Choir Festival, Lakewood, NJ, 2005 - 2007
• Participant/volunteer in UJF of North America Project OTZMA leadership program, Israel, 1992 - 1993

• Music Together Teaching Certificate, 2002
• New York State and City Certifications (K-12) English as a Second Language, 1995
• Counseling-Learning Certification from the Counseling Learning Institute, 1995
• Rassias Method Certification of Second language learning, 1995

Guitar, Cello Classical and a Classical Pianist