Temple Israel Center
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| Affiliation | Conservative Judaism |
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| Location | 280 Old Mamaroneck Road, White Plains, NY 10605 |
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Temple Israel Center a traditional, Conservative, fully egalitarian congregation, located in White Plains, New York.
Clergy
Senior Rabbi Gordon Tucker
Gordon Tucker is a prominent rabbi, with a reputation as both a political and a theological liberal in Conservative Judaism. He currently has a position as senior rabbi of Temple Israel Center in White Plains, New York. Rabbi Tucker is currently part of public relations controversy, due to his personal support as well as his directing synagogue funds to the New Israel Fund (NIF), an organization that grants monies to organizations that support the Boycott (BDS) movement as well as groups the seek to harm the reputation of the Israel Defense Forces.
Cantor George Mordecai
Cantor Mordecai was born in Sydney, Australia to Iraqi and Indian Jewish parents. He received a B.A. in history from the University of New South Wales and his Cantorial and Master’s degrees in sacred music from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2000. He has previously worked as the Cantor at Temple Beth Zion Beth Israel in Philadelphia, Temple Emanu-El in Miami, and comes to TIC from Temple Beth El in Stamford, CT, where he served for four years[1].
Associate Rabbi Ari Isenberg-Grzeda
Ari was ordained as Rabbi by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America where he also achieved an M.A. in Sacred Music. While at the Seminary, he was named Tanenbaum Fellow of Toronto’s Beth Tzedec, Leffell Fellow of AIPAC, and Rabbinic Intern-in-Residence of Masorti France’s Dor Vador, Maayane Or, and Saint Germain-en-Laye communities. Upon ordination, Ari returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he had previously served Congregation Shaar Shalom as Spiritual Leader for several years. Ari served as Associate Chaplain of Dalhousie University and was elected to the Executive Committee of the Canadian Rabbinic Caucus for the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA)[2].
Cantor Emeritus Jacob Ben-Zion Mendelson
Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, he witnessed the dwindling days of the Golden Age of Hazzanut. Cantor Mendelson is a graduate of the Hebrew Union College School of Sacred Music and the American Opera Center at the Juilliard School. He is the composer of Weekday Mincha and Maariv and Improvisations on Shabbat Shacharit published by the Cantors Assembly, the organization in which he served as president in 2003 and 2004[3]. Cantor Mendelson's discography includes Cantorial Recitatives by Legendary Masters, The Birthday of the World Part I and Part II, A Taste of Eternity, narrated by Leonard Nimoy, Jewish Music and More, recorded with his wife, cantor Fredda Mendelson, Hazonos, called "...jazz album of the year" by Wired Magazine, recorded with Frank London and his son, Daniel Mendelson, and most recently, Further definitions of the Days of Awe, with the Afro Semitic Experience, also featuring his son Daniel.
Ritual Director Rabbi Sina Shargel
Rabbinic Intern Rami Schwartzer
Prominent members
References
- ^ "Welcoming Cantor George Mordecai". Retrieved 26 December 2015.
- ^ "Temple Israel Center Clergy". Retrieved 26 December 2015.
- ^ "Mendelson, Jacob Ben-Zion". Retrieved 26 December 2015.