(PRLEAP.COM) Shirat Shalom invites the Elgin/Hoffman Estates community and religious leaders to attend the Installation of Hazzan Sarah Alexander by her mentor, Hazzan Rabbi Shlomo Shuster on Saturday, October 28 at 6:00 p.m.

Reservations are required by October 19, 2006 and can be sent by email to shiratsh@comcast.net or by telephone to Linda at 847.742.8038.

Hazzan Alexander began her musical life as an instrumentalist almost 30 years ago. When she was in her early twenties, she decided to forego a promising career as an orchestral cellist to pursue the sacred calling of the cantorate, which her mentor Hazzan Rabbi Shlomo Shuster has aptly characterized as "leading our people up the mountain of prayer." A “committed Conservative Jew”, Hazzan Alexander is a member of the Cantor’s Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. A past president of the Chicago Milwaukee Association for Synagogue Music, Hazzan Alexander currently serves as Secretary for CMASM, in addition to serving as Secretary-Treasurer for the Midwest Regional chapter of the Cantors Assembly.

Congregations Hazzan Alexander has served include Anshe Tikvah; Ezra Habonim, the Niles Township Jewish Congregation; and Mikdash El Hagro Hebrew Congregation. She is also involved in the greater Jewish community, from lecturing for Hadassah groups to davening with nursing home residents to leading community sedarim. In 2003, Hazzan Alexander was named a “Jewish Chicagoan of the Year” by the Chicago Jewish News.

Shabbat services and an extended kiddush are held each Saturday at Shirat Shalom beginning at 9:45 a.m. and all guests are wlcome.

Shirat Shalom is located at 30W509 Shoe Factory Road in Elgin, between Route 59 and Beverly Road). For more information about Shirat Shalom, please contact Hazzan Sarah Alexander at 847.695.6246 or visit our Website at http://CongregationShiratShalom.org.