Temple Emanu-El Clergy
Rabbi Marc Philippe has been a citizen of the world since childhood, having grown up on four continents. Beyond his role as Temple Emanu-El’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Philippe is a cantor, musician, composer, and conductor. Studying at Paris’ prestigious Ecole Normale de Musique, he earned a Masters degree and later received a second degree at the Conservatoire Maurice Ravel. During the same period, he was a student at the Institutions Talmudiques Yeshiva Yad Mordechai. Rabbi Philippe honed his cantorial skills as a conductor at the Consistoire Israelite de Paris. He then served the Choeur et Orchestre Philharmonique Européen, Orchestre Paris Pops and the Orchestre de I’lle de la Cite in various professional capacities.
Rabbi Philippe’s history in America is no less distinguished. While working at B’nai Torah as Music Education Director he became the founder of the Jewish Symphony in Boca Raton. He then served as Cantor and Education Director for Beth El Congregation in Phoenix and later for Congregation B’nai Zion in El Paso. His sojourn in the Southwest resulted in his creation of The Judaic Cultural Orchestra, which performed fundraising concerts for ARMDI and Hadassah.
Rabbi Philippe received smicha from the Yeshiva Toras Israel in Jerusalem. He is a member of both the Chevra Kadisha of Miami and the Board of the Jewish Chaplaincy Program of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation in addition to serving as a chaplain for the North Miami Police Department. A practitioner of Jewish meditation, he has studied, practiced, taught classes, and organized retreats. He is the founder of Shiviti, The Miami Beach Jewish Center for Healing and Wellbeing, an organization which offers classes, seminars and alternative healing. Further, Rabbi Philippe has participated in the conferences focused on the B’nai Anusim (Crypto-Jews), has developed close friendships with them, and has prepared some of the first teenagers who returned to Judaism for their Bar Mitzvahs.
Rabbi Philippe, his wife Valerie, and their three sons Ylan, Noam and Itai reside in Miami Beach where he is delighted to lead Temple Emanu-El and to serve the Jewish community.
Rabbi Philippe’s history in America is no less distinguished. While working at B’nai Torah as Music Education Director he became the founder of the Jewish Symphony in Boca Raton. He then served as Cantor and Education Director for Beth El Congregation in Phoenix and later for Congregation B’nai Zion in El Paso. His sojourn in the Southwest resulted in his creation of The Judaic Cultural Orchestra, which performed fundraising concerts for ARMDI and Hadassah.
Rabbi Philippe received smicha from the Yeshiva Toras Israel in Jerusalem. He is a member of both the Chevra Kadisha of Miami and the Board of the Jewish Chaplaincy Program of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation in addition to serving as a chaplain for the North Miami Police Department. A practitioner of Jewish meditation, he has studied, practiced, taught classes, and organized retreats. He is the founder of Shiviti, The Miami Beach Jewish Center for Healing and Wellbeing, an organization which offers classes, seminars and alternative healing. Further, Rabbi Philippe has participated in the conferences focused on the B’nai Anusim (Crypto-Jews), has developed close friendships with them, and has prepared some of the first teenagers who returned to Judaism for their Bar Mitzvahs.
Rabbi Philippe, his wife Valerie, and their three sons Ylan, Noam and Itai reside in Miami Beach where he is delighted to lead Temple Emanu-El and to serve the Jewish community.
STAFF
Barbara L. Breslow, Executive/Finance Director
Barbara is excited to be a member of the staff at Temple Emanu-El. She is originally from New York, first the Bronx and then upstate Rockland County (New City). Barbara has lived in South Florida most of her life, since she prefers the warm weather.
Prior to her position at Temple Emanu-El, Barbara worked for the for-profit sector for over twenty years. She was the Plant Manager/Controller for USA Today. She also was the Controller for two other South Florida printing companies. Barbara is enthusiastic about bringing her many years of experience in Finance and Management to Temple Emanu-El. She has two sons, Joshua and Brandon, who are her pride and joy. Brandon recently married Lara so she now has the daughter she always wanted. Hector Priven, Music Director
Hector has been Music Director at Temple Emanu-El since 2005.
Born in Argentina, he was actively involved in the Jewish community there for many years. Hector and his wife, Adriana (a teacher at Beth Moshe) moved to Miami in 2005 along with their two children, Zequi and Lara. |
Suzanne Whiteley, Facilities Manager
Suzanne is also a New York transplant, originally from Brooklyn, and has lived in Florida since 1978.
Prior to coming to Temple Emanu-El, Suzanne worked for 25 years at Gannett Offset in both Accounting as their Assistant Controller & Building Maintenance. When she is not working, she does a tremendous amount of community service due to her love of animals, specifically, she goes out to take care of feral cats and kittens 3 nights a week at several different locations in Broward County. Suzanne loves to travel and cruise. She loves learning about different heritages, traditions and religions. She is getting quite the education right here at Temple Emanu-El Suzanne has one daughter, Destinee who she refers to as her "free spirit". She is also the proud grandmother to Vayda and Starla. Custodians
Josie Avalos
& Junior Berjon |
Leadership
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