Community Scholar Program (CSP) Benefactor/Patron/Legacy Event
Can We Separate (Torah) Artists From Their Art?
{Rabbi Ethan Tucker}

What do we do when a person with extraordinary gifts and talents lacks virtue and good character? Can we excuse personal foibles in order to access a person’s great wisdom or effective leadership skills? What ought to be our considerations and standards in this regard?

Rabbi Ethan Tucker is President and Rosh Yeshiva at Hadar. Ethan was ordained by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and earned a doctorate in Talmud and Rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary and a B.A. from Harvard College. A Wexner Graduate Fellow, he was a co-founder of Kehilat Hadar and a winner of the first Grinspoon Foundation Social Entrepreneur Fellowship. He is the author, along with Rabbi Micha'el Rosenberg, of Gender Equality and Prayer in Jewish Law (2017). Ethan serves as a trustee of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation.