Cantor Norman Cohen Falah arrived in London in August 2005 to serve Belsize Square Synagogue as its full-time Chazan.


Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in February 1973, his first experience dates back to his performance in 1995 at the oldest Community in Argentina (over 100 years old), in the town of Basavilbaso (where the first immigration of Jews from Eastern Europe took place), singing and reading the Torah and Haftarah on the High Holydays.
  The same year he won the Pre-Haleluya Festival competition in Argentina, with a theme in Hebrew, which he jointly composed. His prize was a trip to Israel.
Having composed jointly another remarkable unpublished song, he was summoned in 1999 to sing on the 5^th Anniversary of the AMIA bombing (the Jewish Community Centre) organized by Memoria Activa organization.
In January 1996, he started to serve as a full-time Cantor, Torah Reader and B´nai-Mitzvah teacher at the Joel Community in Buenos Aires where he stayed until January 2001.
  In February 2001, he joined Bet-Hillel Community, one of the largest in Argentina, to work as an Assistant Cantor, Torah Reader and B´nai-Mitzvah Teacher.
Norman was Cantor for the High Holy Days 5761/2000 at Temple Beth Sholom, in Las Vegas and at Temple Beth Am, in Margate, Florida in 5763/2002.
  After many years serving as a Cantor in Argentina and in order to develop his career, he decided in May 2003, to move to the Netherlands as Chazan, Music  Director and B´nai-Mitzvah teacher at the Liberaal Joodse Gemeente, in Amsterdam. A position he held until July 2005.
  He took part in seminars of Torah (Machane Tanach -1991) and of musical and pedagogical techniques (Shiru Shir-1997) in Israel.
  He studied Chazanut at the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary and music, guitar and piano at the National Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires.

The BelsiZemer Song Festival was conceived by Norman

Entertaining at the 'Friends Meeting Friends' Dinner accompanied by Dorothy White our Care Coordinator