Eric Schulmiller
Cantor. Writer. Ice Cream Eater.
About ME
Full time Cantor and youth leader at a progressive New York congregation. Writer for numerous publications on culture, humor, and Jewish life.
Eric earned his bachelor of music degree in Jazz Piano from the University of Miami, and has played with his own jazz group at NYC jazz clubs such as the renowned Knitting Factory. A member of the American Conference of Cantors, Eric was ordained in 1999 with a masters degree in Sacred Music from the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music at Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, and has served for over twenty years as Cantor of The Reconstructionist Synagogue of the North Shore in Manhasset.
"The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream."
Wallace stevens
words by me
Humor
The New Yorker
- Children's Books for the One Per Cent
- The New And Improved San Diego Comic-Con Anti-Harassment Policy
- Butcher Pat LaFrieda's Secret Custom Burger Blends for Celebrity Chefs
- My Greatest Fears At Every Age, 1973-Present
- What Your Facebook Birthday Wish Says About You
- Scenes From HBO's New Season of Sesame Street
- How To Care For Your New Cast-Iron Skillet
- Genes I Would Have Edited Out of My Own Embryo
- Charities Still Holding Fund-Raising Events at Mar-A-Lago
- Bean Dad Jokes
- Finally! An Easy Way to Buy Glasses on the Internet!
McSweeney's
- A Confessional Prayer For 5776
- List: Famous First Lines of Novels, Written in Increasingly-Convoluted Yoda Syntax by a Writer Lazily Trying to Cash in On Star Wars Mania
- Unauthorized Distribution of Your Childhood Violates Federal Copyright Law
- Passover Seder: A Thrilling New Escape the Room Experience!
- STEM for Dogs
Culture
The New York Times Magazine
The Forward/JTA
- Showing Their True Colors
- From Moses And Miriam To Meeropol
- For the Glove of the Game
- It's Jews vs. Jaws This Month on the Discovery Channel
- When George Washington Celebrated Thanksgivukkah
- Apple's Jewish History — 30 Years After Iconic Super Bowl Ad
- Justin Bieber and the Most Jewish Drag Race
- The Secret Jewish History of the Coffee Cup (Starbucks and Otherwise)
- Vegetables Are the New Bacon at Dirt Candy
- The Talmud of a Cracked iPhone Screen
- 3 Jewish Inventions Tailor-Made for Rosh Hashanah
- Why Our Greatest Jewish Athlete is a Wrestler Named Goldberg
- Why I Love Stranger Things
- The Secret Jewish History of the KitKat Jingle
- How Netflix's New Jewish Protagonist Is Breaking Ground For Trans Teens
- Why All Jews Should Be Saying Kaddish For The Choco Taco
- 20 Years Ago, Marvel Introduced a Jewish Black Panther
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