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Vivian Singer
Vivian Singer is a computer professional
and a Hebrew lover who has been creating Jewish software
and siddurim ever since home computers became available.
As early as 1984, she developed one of the first Hebrew/English
word processors including trope, and used it to write software
for Davka Corporation.
Working with the
CCAR and the
Israeli Progressive Movement, Vivian edited the
English Companion to Ha-Avodah Shebalev, which
is widely used in Israeli Progressive synagogues. She has
worked with rabbis to design worship services for their
installations in their new congregations, with parents to
create meaningful prayerbooks for their children's B'nai
Mitzvah services, and with engaged couples to compile wedding
benchers that reflect their unique perspective and their
hopes for the future of the world.
Vivian is a former Assistant Regional Director
for the Northeast Lakes Council of the Union
for Reform Judaism.
What
SingerSiddur Does
SingerSiddur
offers design, layout, and printing of custom prayerbooks
for rabbis, cantors, congregations and families who want
something unique for a milestone occasion. Most popular
are Bar and Bat Mitzvah services and wedding benchers.
SingerSiddur
is dedicated to the proposition that the worship service
is the most important part of a Bar or Bat Mitzvah day.
Working
with the family, SingerSiddur incorporates artwork, poetry,
and the weekly Torah and Haftarah portions to create a beautiful
custom prayerbook that everyone can take home as a meaningful
memento.
By providing
professional help with the liturgy, page layout, reproduction
and binding, SingerSiddur lets the Bar Mitzvah family focus
on the special content. Each project starts with the large
SingerSiddur library of Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and
Reconstructionist Shabbat and weekday services and the Tanach
(Hebrew Bible).
SingerSiddur
also allows families to design a personalized Haggadah for
Passover. Inserting old family photos and mementos into
the familiar text gives special meaning to the key phrase
“B'chol Dor Vador” - in every generation.
The
company is located near Cleveland, Ohio, but most projects
are done remotely, with drafts and samples passed back and
forth via email.
How
SingerSiddur started
Vivian
Singer formed SingerSiddur in 2003 in an effort to get people
involved in the exciting process of creating prayerbooks.
This
venture is also a result of Ms. Singer’s passion for quality
control in the design of creative worship and for the ethics
of copyrights. Although Hebrew texts are generally in the
public domain, the English translations all belong to someone,
and she feels strongly that religious organizations should
uphold the highest standards.
SingerSiddur
has licensing agreements to use the English translations
from:
•
CCAR
Press (Reform Movement) prayer books - the "Gates"
series,
•
Jewish Reconstructionist
Federation Kol Haneshamah prayer books,
• Bloch Publishing Company
Hertz Authorized (Orthodox) prayer book,
•
Jewish Publication Society
Tanakh: Torah, Haftarah, and other Bible texts.
We also
work with the Rabbinical
Assembly (Conservative) to get individual permissions
to use the English translations from the Sim Shalom
series.
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