There is a Temple in Heaven that is opened only through song (Tikkunei Zohar)   JHOM.com celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Zamir Choral movement with a feature on choral music, with special focus on the Zamir Chorale of Boston. We invite our readers to enjoy several webcast recordings of Zamir performances view enlarged Enjoy also a RealAudio interview with Founder and Artistic Director of the Zamir Chorale of Boston, Joshua Jacobson A heavenly song: Choir in Jewish tradition The Editor The first Jewish choir — 1312 BCE: Or was that two choirs James L. Kugel "And their praise grew louder…": Levitical song in the Holy Temple of Jerusalem Pomp, circumstance and choral music Inaugural welcome of the head of the Babylonian Jewish community Amnon Shiloah Synagogue choral music in Renaissance Italy And a letter to the Jewish public championing the trend (1628) Salamone Rossi Hebreo and the Italian Renaissance Joshua Jacobson Louis Lewandowski — the first synagogue choir director And two of Lewandowski's liturgical compositions sung by the Zamir Chorale of Boston From Ha-Zomir to Zamir 100 years of the Jewish Choral Movement Joshua Jacobson The Zamir Chorale of Boston Jennifer Turvey with Joshua Jacobson Cuando El Rey Nimrod: A Ladino folksong "When Nimrod went into the Fields" / Choral rendition by Zamir Chorale Yossi Zucker Nightingales, Sabbath melodies, and tree pruning Hebrew rootword: z-m-r