Deborah Goldberg

Deborah Goldberg is a first year rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. Prior to enrolling at HUC-JIR, Deborah served as the Teen Programs Coordinator at the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs in Chicago, IL. In this role, she managed all aspects of JCUA’s teen social justice program, Or Tzedek. Before...
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Ari Witkin

Ari Witkin, a Minneapolis native and Goucher College graduate, is a third year rabbinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Prior to joining the RRC community, he spent 5 years loving living in Baltimore where he worked as a community organizer engaging religious communities in violence prevention and youth advocacy campaigns and as an experiential...
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Bryan Mann

Bryan Mann, a Temple University graduate, is a queer rabbinical student entering his fourth year at Hebrew College. A member of the Moishe Kavod House and Keshet Boston, he is actively engaged in social justice work to combat police brutality, fight for a living wage, and promote the full inclusion of LGBTQ people. In addition...
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Dan Slipakoff

Dan Slipakoff, of Philadelphia, PA, is thrilled to begin his rabbinic studies at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. Dan has a Master’s in Social Work from Temple University and has spent the last year interning with POWER, an interfaith community organizing group focused on making Philadelphia a city of equal opportunity for...
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Rabbi Elana Friedman

Rabbi Elana Friedman graduated from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Before entering rabbinical school in 2010, Elana spent seven years working for the Fund for the Public Interest, a nonprofit organization that runs campaigns for environmental and progressive causes. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in Environmental Studies. As a rabbinical...
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Katie Greenberg

Katie Greenberg is a fourth year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she is pursuing her Masters in Education and a certificate in Clinical Pastoral Education. A native New Yorker, she graduated from Oberlin College with a degree in Jewish History and Environmental Studies. She spent three years living in Israel, where she...
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Rabbi Jason Fenster

Jason Fenster is a second year rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Before coming to rabbinical school, Jason served as an Eisendrath Legislative Assistant at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism where he focused on issues of gun control, LGBT equality, criminal justice, disability rights, and voting rights. After his fellowship,...
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Ayelet Hines

Ayelet has three decades of experience working on campaigns for public health, workers rights, the environment, human rights, public safety, gay rights, environmental justice, animal rights and political candidates in more than 20 states and internationally. Ayelet’s career has involved organizing, strategic communications, non-violent direct action, lobbying, training, Get-Out-the-Vote, fundraising, and publishing for Environmental Defense Fund,...
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Ben Goldberg

Ben Goldberg is a rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he is also earning an MA in Midrash, and will be ordained in 2018. During the 2016-7 school year, Ben was Rabbinic Intern at Rutgers University Hillel and also at Congregation Beth Israel in Scotch Plains, NJ. During previous rabbinical...
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Daniel Atwood

Daniel is a student at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School, expecting to be ordained in 2019, and a resident of the vibrant community in Washington Heights, Manhattan. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Honors Program at Yeshiva University, with majors in Psychology and Medieval Jewish Studies, where he also served as Managing Editor and Senior...
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