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What do we sing?

Our repertoire includes Jewish music in many languages including French, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and English. We perform works by artists ranging from the Jewish Italian renaissance composer Salamone Rossi (1570-1630) to contempoary American musicians like Debbie Friedman, Craig Taubman and Robbie Solomon. We also sing Israeli folk and pop music, Chassidic tunes, and sacred classical works by composers such as Bernstein and Bloch. We are known for our humorous parodies and '50s "doo-wop" settings.

Much of our repertoire is a capella, and other selections are accompanied by piano, clarinets, guitar, accordion, percussion, and even kazoos, played by our members.

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A Sample of Arbel's repertoire

Abi Gezint   Abraham Ellstein, arr. Stephen Cohen
Adonai Ro'i [Psalm 23]   Gerald Cohen
Al HaNissim   Dov Frimer, arr. Jacobson & Netsky
Al Kol Eileh   Naomi Shemer, arr. Gil Aldema
Ani V'Atah (You and I)   Miki Gabrielov, arr. Joshua Jacobson
Bar'chu   Salamone Rossi
Barukh HaBa BeShem Ado-nai   Salamone Rossi
Boruch Atoh   Solomon Golub, arr. J. Jacobson
Dona, Dona   Sholom Secunda, arr. J. Jacobson
Enosh   Louis Lewandowski
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor   Irving Berlin, arr. Roy Ringwald
Go Down Moses   Mark Hayes
G-d's Gonna Buil' Up Zion's Wall   arr. Jester Hairston
HaKotel   Dov Seltzer, arr. J. Jacobson
Hallelujah [Psalm 150]   Andrea Jill Higgins
Halleluyaw [Psalm 150]   Louis Lewandowski
Halleluyah, halleli nafshi [Psalm 146]   Salamone Rossi
Hanukkah Madrigal   Herbert Fromm
HaTikvah: a new setting   David Burger
HaTikvah   arr. Paul Ben-Haim
Hine Ba HaShalom   Nurit Hirsch, arr. Sheldon Levin
Ikh bin a kleyner dreydl   Mikhl Gelbart, arr. Mark Zuckerman
Jerusalem Is Mine   Kenny Karen, arr. S. Levin
Kol Han'shamah T'halel Yah [Psalm 150:6]   Bonia Shur
Lebn Zol Columbus   Aaron Perlmutter & Herman Wohl, arr. Rand
Lech LaMidbar   arr. Dudley
Let The Heavens Be Glad   Rob Weinberg, arr. Riki Lippitz
Light the Legend   Michael Isaacson
Lo V'Chayil   Elliot Z. Levine
Mak'hela Aliza   Nurit Hirsh, arr. G. Aldema
Mi Chamocha   Meir Finkelstein, arr. Stephen Glass
Mizmorei T'hilim (Psalm Songs)   Tzvi Avni
Ocho Kandelikas   Flory Jagoda, arr. J. Jacobson
Pitakhta   Baruch Cohon
Psalm 96 (world premiere)   Andrew Bleckner
Rounds of Israel   arr. Robert DeCormier
Samachti B'omrim Li [from Psalm 122]   Charles Osborne
Sa'enu   arr. Charles Davidson
See, the conq'ring hero comes!   G. F. Handel
Shabbas   Sam Glaser, arr. S. Levin
Shalom Aleychem   William Sharlin
Shir Hashirim   Yehezkel Braun
Shir L'Shalom ("Hand in Hand")   Yair Rosenblum, arr. M. Isaacson
Simhu Na   Matityahu Weiner, arr. Leonard Bernstein
That's What Grandma Says   Doug Konecky & Justin Wilde
T'filah (Prayer for the Peace of Israel)   David Burger
T'filat HaDerech   Debbie Friedman, arr. S. Levin
Yerushalayim Shel Zahav   Naomi Shemer, arr. G. Aldema

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