Debbie Friedman

Debbie Friedman
(RNS) Debbie Friedman, a composer and singer whose melodies updated modern music in the synagogue services worldwide, deceased of pneumonia Sunday (January 9). She was 59.
With her guitar, Friedman became famous for a folksy style that mixed Hebrew and English, and encouraged the public – or in the concert hall or synagogue – to sing.
“They revolution Jewish music in our time,” said Barry Holtz, dean of the William Davidson Graduate School of Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
“They took the sound of years 1960 and 1970 American folk and pop, and