Debbie Friedman

Jewish American singer-songwriter of liturgical music

Deborah Lynn Friedman (February 23, 1951 – January 9, 2011) was an American singer-songwriter of religious Jewish music. She was an early pioneer of gender-sensitive language: using the feminine forms of the Divine or altering masculine-only text references in the Jewish Liturgy to include feminine language. She is best known for her setting of "Mi Shebeirach" the prayer for Healing.

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