Cantor David Mintz

Director of Program Strategy and Operations

Cantor David Mintz

dmintz@bj.org

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Biography

Cantor David Mintz is the Director of Program Strategy and Operations at BJ, where he works closely with the program, operations, communications, and marketing teams in realizing BJ’s programmatic vision. He first joined the staff in 2017, as Director of BJ’s Center for Prayer and Spirituality.

Previously, David served as the cantor of Touro Synagogue in New Orleans, where he was a thought leader, bringing innovation to spiritual practice, shaping a culture of communal singing, and strengthening lifelong learning. He received ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where he was a member of the cantorial cohort of the Tisch Rabbinic Fellowship. David was a 2013 recipient of the Fischl-Kohn Memorial Grant to travel to Prague with the Defiant Requiem Foundation, researching the music of Theresienstadt, the subject of his masters thesis, Voices of Spiritual Resistance: Music of the Terezín Ghetto.

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