Gordon Tucker
Rabbi Gordon Tucker is a Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He is also Vice Chancellor for Religious Life and Engagement at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Previously he was the Senior Rabbi at Temple Israel Center in White Plains, NY (a Conservative synagogue) from 1994 to 2018. He received an A.B. from Harvard College, Ph.D. from Princeton University, and Rabbinic Ordination from Jewish Theological Seminary. He was
“I Never Never Turned Aside…It Was You Who Covered Up My Face”
How do walls appear between us and the divine, and how can we remove them? Gordon Tucker explores this question through Rabbinic texts, Hasidic texts, and the soulful music and lyrics of Leonard Cohen.
NOTE: This program was part of our Summer 2021 Virtual Rabbinic Torah Seminar, Torah of Possibility for an Uncertain Future
