David Schuck is the rabbi of the Pelham Jewish Center in Pelham Manor, NY. He is also a faculty member in the rabbinical school at the Academy for Jewish Religion where he teaches Professional Skills. Before becoming the rabbi of the Pelham Jewish Center, Rabbi Schuck worked as the rabbi of the Conservative Minyan at the University of Pennsylvania Hillel; as a chaplain at Columbia University’s New York Presbyterian Hospital; as a teacher at the 92nd Street Y Derekh Torah program in New York City; and was a Jewish Service Corps Educator in Bombay, India through the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
 

Rabbi Schuck grew up in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. He has a Bachelor of Arts in political science and Middle East history from Rutgers University and was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2004. Upon his ordination, Rabbi Schuck was awarded the Lillian M. Lowenfeld Prize in Practical Theology and the Israel H. Levinthal Prize in Homiletics. He is currently a candidate for a Master’s Degree in Talmud and Rabbinics from the JTS Graduate School.
 

Rabbi Schuck is an active member of community organizations, and serves as the President of the Westchester Inter-Religious Clergy Network and is on the board of the Westchester Jewish Conference. He has also served on the boards of the Pelham Guidance Council and the Board of Directors of the Mount Vernon Soup Kitchen.
 

Rabbi Schuck did not begin to think seriously about the rabbinate until it was unreservedly apparent that he had no future in baseball (which was obvious to all who knew him by high school, yet not so obvious to him until later in life). Rabbi Schuck lives in Pelham with his wife Tali Aldouby-Schuck and their two sons Noam and Nadav.