Judith Ovadia received her Master of Sacred Music and was Invested as Cantor from the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion School of Sacred Music in 1996. She  served as cantor of Temple Shalom of Newton, Massachusetts from 2007 to 2011.  Cantor Ovadia blogs about a variety of subjects, from sacred music to professional sports.  She is currently working on a memoir about the crisis of faith she faced when her husband was diagnosed with cancer the day before their second child was born.  Cantor Ovadia was an adjunct faculty member at the School of Jewish Music at Hebrew College in Newton Centre.  Currently, she is serving Temple B'nai Israel in Clearwater, Florida.