Welcome שלום

Cantor Olivia Brodsky is passionate about preserving Jewish culture, tradition, and music, while making it evermore applicable to daily life. She is dedicated to the ideal of engaging a diverse community composed of people with varying backgrounds and levels of religious and cultural observance. Growing up, Cantor Brodsky was touched by liturgical music and recognized it as an accessible and powerful means of connecting with her heritage and community. She believes strongly in the transcendent nature of music, and its unparalleled ability to both convey and evoke emotion and spirituality. Her vision is to help people enrich their lives through a Jewish lens: ethically, socially, intellectually, and spiritually.              

Cantor Brodsky was raised in West Bloomfield, Michigan, where, from an early age, she studied with Cantor/composer Meir Finkelstein. She had the privilege of performing with Cantor Finkelstein in his original cantata, “Gates of Righteousness”, which was performed with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Leonard Slatkin.                                                                             

Cantor Brodsky attended the double degree program at Tufts University and New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) in Boston, MA, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Judaic Studies at Tufts and studied Classical Vocal Performance at NEC. She was one of the few members selected from the Tufts University Gospel Choir chosen to perform at the December 2014 “Holidays at the White House” for President and First Lady Obama.

Cantor Brodsky received her Master of Sacred Music and Cantorial Ordination from Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in New York City. She previously served as the student Cantor at Temple Emanuel in Roanoke, VA, Congregation Beth Yam in Hilton Head, SC, the Jewish Community Project (JCP) in Tribeca, and Congregation Rodeph Sholom in NYC.  For the past two years, Cantor Brodsky has served as the Cantor of Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff, NJ. Olivia recently attended the IJCIC (International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations) Emerging Leadership Conference in Oxford, England, together with an international group of Jewish and Catholic leaders, as representatives of the Vatican, to promote open dialogue, foster friendship, combat anti-Semitism, and strengthen relations between these two communities.

As of July 1, 2023, Cantor Brodsky became the Cantor and Co-Spiritual leader of East End Temple in Manhattan, NY, alongside Rabbi Joshua Stanton. Olivia is humbled by the opportunity to provide her community with joy, comfort, and meaning through Jewish music.