He founded and directed the formidable BMH-BJ Men's Choir, Kidz Korus and annual Shabbat Shira experience. In 1995, as Denver’s BMH-BJ Congregation Senior Hazzan, musical director, teacher and lecturer, “Cantor Joel” implemented his creative vision synthesizing traditional and contemporary liturgy and music. He became Senior Cantor to two of South Africa’s largest, prestigious synagogues, Green & Sea Point Hebrew Congregation and The Great Synagogue, South Africa’s “Mother” Synagogue. Under Joel’s direction his 50 member mixed voice Cape Town Jewish Choral Society (1979-1986), performed a varied repertoire of Jewish and secular music to much acclaim. Studies in commerce and music continued at the University of Cape Town, University of South Africa (Pretoria), Royal Schools of Music (London), Trinity College (Dublin), and voice production with Professor Lloyd Strauss-Smith (Cape Town).
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Nurtured and mentored in all aspects of synagogue craft, liturgy and Jewish music by his father, Cantor Jakub Lichterman z”l, a recognized European trained star Cantor, Joel received professional investiture from the Cantors Assembly (L.H. Among his favorites are Kabbalah and Jewish History.Ĭantor Marty and his wife Eve have 4 children between them, Shayna, Jake, Rafi and Jack.Ĭantor Emeritus African born Joel Lichterman studied piano from age 5 with renowned concert pianist, Doris Lardner, becoming a recognized award-winning classical pianist, musical arranger and accompanist to internationally recognized Hazzanim whilst in his teens.
Cantor Marty has trained hundreds of B’nai Mitzvah students during his career, as well as teaching various subjects in adult education. Temple Beth Chai in Hauppauge, New York, The Greenburgh Hebrew Center in Dobbs Ferry, NY and 25 years at the Hebrew Educational Alliance in Denver. Cantor Marty served 3 synagogues before coming the BMH-BJ. He began his career as a Cantor at age 19 with his first High Holidays in Del Rey Beach, Florida. Cantor Goldstein’s vocal training included time at Hunter College of the CUNY and at Manhattan School of Music in NYC and graduated from Empire State College of the SUNY. Cantor Goldstein was assistant conductor for the Shalom Singers during his choral training years in Boro Park, NY. He continued his early training by singing in hotels such as Grossinger’s and Kutcher’s in the Catskill mountains as a choir boy and soloist. Cantor Marty also studied with several of the great Cantors of our time including Cantor Moshe Ganchoff and Cantor Leibele Waldman.Ĭantor Goldstein began his career singing with his parents Jack and Harriett Goldstein and 4 siblings as the Goldstein Family Singers. Cantor Marty, began his training at age 6 with his father, AH” Cantor Jacob Goldstein, who also served as Cantor of the BMH from 1970-72. He began his time as the new Cantor at the BMH-BJ Congregation with the High Holy Days 5779.
He also is an accomplished musician and an avid tennis player.Ĭantor Martin Martin Goldstein is a 7th generation Chazzan in his 44th year as a singer, educator, and clergy. Rabbi Chaitovsky has extensive interest in Jewish ethics and contemporary society, and he is committed to the unity and diversity of the Jewish people. During his years away, Rabbi Chaitovsky was the Senior Judaic Educator and then School Rabbi and Director of Jewish Life at the Shoshana Cardin High School, a pluralistic community school, in Baltimore.Ī very popular and informative presenter, he has spoken to numerous teen and adult audiences around the world on a wide range of popular and scholarly topics. Rabbi Chaitovsky was the rabbi of BMH-BJ from 1995-2001 and returned to the synagogue and community he always loved in time for the Yamim Noraim in 2014 and then full-time at the start of 2015. Rabbi Chaitovsky also received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Maryland School of Law. He spent 10 summers on the rabbinical staff of the B’nai B’rith Leadership Kallah in Starlight, Pennsylvania. He began his rabbinic career at Baltimore’s Beth Tfiloh Congregagtion and then served Annapolis, MD’s Knesseth Israel Congregation. Rabbi Yaakov Yaakov Chaitovsky was born in Philadelphia and received his rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University.
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