RABBI LEONARD GORDON comes to Congregation Mishkan Tefila after 16 years as rabbi at the Germantown Jewish Centre in Philadelphia, where he is rabbi emeritus. He is an experienced teacher and community builder who has held academic positions in Religious Studies and Humanities at Kenyon College and the Ohio State University. He has also taught rabbinical students at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem.
This year Rabbi Gordon completed twelve years of service on the committee that produced the new Conservative movement High Holiday Mahzor, Lev Shalem, that will be adopted at CMT. Rabbi Gordon co-chairs the Public Policy and Social Action Committee of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. In that role, he participates in national and international interfaith dialogue and Israel advocacy. Previously, he chaired the Rabbinical Assembly Social Action Committee.
Rabbi Gordon graduated Columbia College in 1976, studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1985 and had masters degrees in Religious Studies from Brown and Columbia Universities.
His wife, Dr. Lori Lefkovitz, is the incoming Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies at Northeastern University. They have two daughters, Ronya, a recent graduate of Brandeis Univeristy and Samara, who begins the University of Pennsylvania this fall.
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