Cantor Vladimir Lapin

Recent Articles:

• Joy is There, in Cleveland Plain Dealer and Sun Press, January 2026

• The Hidden Cantor Article, in eJewishPhilanthropy, December 2025

Performances and Concert Programs:

• Cleveland Cantors Concert to Benefit Magen David Adom, November, 2025

• The Jewish Heart of the Tango, Congregation Mishkan Or, February 2025

• Ernest Bloch Sacred Service with Kent State University Orchestra and Choir, May 2024

  An Afternoon of Song at Fairmount Temple, November 2020

• Cantor Benjie Ellen Schiller and Shireinu Choir, January 2020

• Nefesh Mountain at TBE, November 2019

• Music at TBE 2018-19 Season

• Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: Music of the Great American Songbook, 2018

News Clips:

• Tango Comes to Life at Mishkan Or (Cleveland.com, 2025)

• NPR and Ideastream’s Sound of Ideas Program on Faith Leaders Responding to the War in Israel (Ideastream/NPR, 2023)

• Fairmount Introduces New Prayerbooks (CJN, 2022)

• Lessons Learned - Cantor Sings Message of Hope (Spectrum News 1, Ohio)

• Fairmount Temple Hires Vladimir Lapin as Cantor (Cleveland Jewish News, 2020)

• In Great Neck, Senators Stand Up to Anti-Semitic Attacks (LI Business News, 2019)

• “Hundreds Attend Persian New Year Celebration in Great Neck” (The Island Now, 2019)

• "In the Spirit of Entrepreneurism: Be Wise Fellows Make Judaism More Relevant" (eJewishPhilanthropy.com, 2016)

• "Victory Day Over Nazis Still Alive for NY's Russian Jews" (Ha'aretz, 2015)

• "Hebrew Union College Going Green" (Jewish Week, 2014)

Just for Fun:

• Purim Shpiel: Book of Purim (Official Parody of Book of Mormon)