Cantor David Mintz

Chief of Staff

Cantor David Mintz

dmintz@bj.org

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Biography

Cantor David Mintz serves as Chief of Staff at BJ, providing leadership and strategic coordination across the congregation’s rabbinic, programmatic, and lifecycle operations. In this capacity, he drives efficiency across teams, leads major projects, and ensures alignment in core areas of BJ’s work. David first joined BJ in 2017 as Director of the Center for Prayer and Spirituality and later served as Director of Program Strategy and Operations.

Previously, David was the cantor of Touro Synagogue in New Orleans, where he brought innovation to spiritual practice, fostered a culture of communal singing, and strengthened lifelong learning. He was ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion as part of the cantorial cohort of the Tisch Rabbinic Fellowship. In 2013, he received the Fischl-Kohn Memorial Grant to travel to Prague with the Defiant Requiem Foundation, researching the music of Theresienstadt—the focus of his master’s thesis, Voices of Spiritual Resistance: Music of the Terezín Ghetto.

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