Rabbi Elliott Tepperman
Special guest
Rabbi Elliott Tepperman is the incoming President & CEO of Reconstructing Judaism. He comes to this role with decades of service to the Reconstructionist movement, including 24 years as the spiritual leader of Bnai Keshet after graduating from Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 2002. He is a rabbi, teacher, community builder and passionate advocate for the kind of Judaism we are all striving to create: one rooted in tradition, open to question and relentlessly committed to a more just world. He served as President of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association and is a past President of the Montclair Interfaith Clergy Association. In 2019, Rabbi Tepperman won the Rabbinic Human Rights Hero Award from T’ruah, the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights.
Rabbi Elliott Tepperman has been a guest on 3 episodes.
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Series Finale: Rabbi Deborah Waxman & Incoming President Rabbi Elliott Tepperman
August 27th, 2026 | 38 mins 9 secs
In Hashivenu's final episode, Rabbi Deborah Waxman sits down with incoming Reconstructing Judaism president Rabbi Elliott Tepperman to talk calling, community, and resilience in Jewish life today.
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Reconstructionist Values, Covenantal Community and War in the Middle East
December 4th, 2024 | Season 5 | 53 mins 8 secs
Rabbi Elliott Tepperman and Rabbi Rachel Weiss join Rabbi Deborah Waxman for a deeply thoughtful and nuanced conversation about the difficult and rewarding work of maintaining unity within Jewish communities that sometimes have diverse views on Israel and Palestine and the War in Gaza.
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Episode 10: "You Were Strangers in Egypt": Passover and Sanctuary
March 19th, 2018 | Season 1 | 22 mins 30 secs
On Passover, we retell our history as strangers and slaves in Egypt. What obligations flow from this memory? We speak with Rabbi Elliott Tepperman, whose congregation recently decided to serve as a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants. Join us as we discuss the Jewish values that moved his community to action.