Our Clergy
Our clergy combine their love of Judaism and learning to nurture Jewish identity through community, tradition, and making a positive impact in this world.
Rabbi Michal Morris Kamil
Rabbi Michal envisages a community that welcomes all and sees people in their full identities and light, and celebrates each person’s unique contribution to our holy community.
Why Congregation Beth El-Ner Tamid for your family?
The beauty of Judaism and community is in its stories of the Torah that highlight heroes, role models, sources of inspiration coming from diverse backgrounds, multiple tribes, multiple allies, who all stood at Mount Sinai to receive our beautiful legacy and ‘one-ness’ of identity, made up of our many parts.
Cantor Steven Friedrich
Cantor Steven Friedrich has nearly 4 decades of experience as a cantor and in synagogue administration, as well as a half-century experience as a B’nai Mitzvot tutor and religious school teacher.
A graduate of Muhlenberg College, Cantor Steve studied the cantorial arts as a student of Cantors Seymour Schwartzman and Moshe Burger, as well as in the Masters in Jewish Music program at Gratz College under the tutelage of Professor Sholom Altman, z”l and Dr. Irving Cohen, z”l.
Rabbi Barry Blum
Rabbi Barry Blum, a native Philadelphian, was raised in Overbrook Park. He served in the CBENT community for 31 years.
His community work includes serving as past president of the Marple Newtown Clergy Association and Chaplain for several local nursing homes through Jewish Children and Family Services. In the past, Rabbi Blum served as the Camp Rabbi each summer at the B’nai B’rith in Starlight, Pennsylvania, where he served as a Judaism Specialist.
