Talk:Gordon Tucker

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This needs to be cleaned up.

I'll do it - Erebus555 15:44, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I have added the paragraph about the Heschel book translation, and contributed a colorful photo of mine from the 2003 Israel Ride. I hope that a colleague or student of Rabbi Tucker will feel free to add to and edit what I have written, perhaps to add more about Heavenly Torah and other articles and writings. --Metzenberg 07:40, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Teshuvah on homosexuality and new edits

(Moved here from my Talk page) Mark, I just undid your edits to the Gordon Tucker page, but I invite you to come back and make them again, with some changes to follow wikipedia guidelines. I see that you are somebody who, like me, is involved in the Conservative movement, and I am sure you have much more knowledge about Rabbi Tucker than I do. However, I want to make sure that the end result is a factually correct and verifiable article on Rabbi Tucker. I know him (just a bit) and like him, but I'm not here to support or defend him. I just want us to follow good wikipedia practices.

This is all fine by me. Mark3

First of all, you deleted some material that had been there for several months, which I assume was correct, because nobody else had changed it, although I don't have firsthand knowledge. Please make a proposal for deletion on the article's Talk page, and let all the persons interested in the page discuss it for two weeks. Maybe there will even be a consensus of opinion much sooner. If nobody responds, then you can go ahead and delete.

Are you referring to the edits I made regarding his teshuvot on homosexuality? It was finally voted on as a takkanah. Many in the RA wanted the bar to be very high for a takkanah, 3/4 of the committee would have had to accept it. However, in the end the RA decided that the CJLS could pass a takkanah with a majority (13/25) vote, but R. Tucker's takkanah only received six votes. This series of events is detailed in the Conservative Halakha article.

However, if I deleted something else, let me know, and just restore it! Mark3 01:16, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Next, you added the following quotation:

He was not seen as a successful fundraiser while on the Masorti board.

This is an example of an unverifiable statement of opinion. It may indeed be true. Can you replace this statement with another one that says something like ...

A letter writer to the White Plains Jewish Rag, Adam Shimkowitz, complained that Rabbi Tucker was not a successful fundraiser ..

Carole Leibowitz, reporting in the Jewish Daily Forward, said that members of the board felt Rabbi Tucker was not a successful fundraiser ...

According to Rifka Rabinowitz, reporting for the JTA, Rabbi Tucker was not seen by other members of the Masorti board as a successful fundraiser.

In other words, if this is a true, give it to us in a way that is factual and verifiable (published somewhere outside wikipedia). Either a quotation that other readers can verify, or a statement by a professional journalist who has conducted interviews off the record would suffice. Thank you! --Metzenberg 08:05, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

A good and fair point. I don't have much time to work on articles this week, but maybe I'll get around to doing some more in the near future. Mark3 01:16, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks Mark3

Glad you are working on this article. Please edit freely the material I have just added. Can you fix the Jewish Daily Forward link, and find more sources? There is a lot of unsourced commentary in this article. I know for a fact that it is all true, but as far as this article is concerned, it is unsourced. Do you know where to find a list of publications by Rabbi Tucker? Does he have anything like a curriculum vita posted somewhere? He doesn't seen to have a home page. --Metzenberg 08:51, 20 February 2007 (UTC)