By listening to a tape, she started learning the Hebrew prayers and their melodies.
The historic wall paintings, most of which are decorative texts of Hebrew prayers, were restored.
On a recent flight, she worked on a transliteration of Hebrew prayers for members of her congregation who do not read that language.
Up to that time the role of a hazzan in America had been merely to lead the congregation in Hebrew prayers.
Standing in the 50-strong audience was a man with a tattoo of a Hebrew prayer on his forehead.
The room still has Hebrew prayers on the walls.
It is a place where mostly old men covered with prayer shawls bend and chant the ancient Hebrew prayers.
There was also an interfaith worship service in which all the chaplains planned to recite a Hebrew prayer together.
It begins with the playing of the Hebrew prayer for the dead.
The great Hebrew prayer set to music.