Rachel (Braun) Rubenstein

Rachel Braun is a first year rabbinical student at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at American Jewish University. Rachel grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and attended Chicagoland Jewish High School. She then got her BA at Washington University in St. Louis in International Studies with a focus on the Middle East and...
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Rabbi Jill Jacobs

Rabbi Jill Jacobs (she/her) is the CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, an organization that trains and mobilizes more than 2,300 rabbis and cantors and their communities to bring a moral voice to protecting and advancing human rights in North America, Israel, and the occupied Palestinian territories. She is the author of...
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Audrey Honig

Audrey (she/her) is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College (’27). She grew up in Chicago, and her passion for Jewish life was sparked during her summers as a camper and staff member at URJ Camp OSRUI. As a student at Kalamazoo College, Audrey deepened her love of community-building through Hillel, interfaith dialogue, and with...
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Dr. Marc Dollinger

Marc Dollinger

Dr. Marc Dollinger holds the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University. He has served as research fellow at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion as well as the Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College,...
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Rabbi Sandra Lawson

Rabbi Sandra Lawson (she/her) works with senior staff, lay leaders, clergy, rabbinical students, and Reconstructionist communities to help Reconstructing Judaism realize its deeply held aspiration of becoming an anti-racist organization and movement. In her role, Lawson is developing a series of anti-racist policies and trainings for the organization and its affiliate members. She also serves...
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Tanya Farber

Tanya Farber (she/her/hers) is a rabbinical student at Yeshivat Maharat in Riverdale, NY, expecting to graduate in 2021. A school teacher for nearly fifteen years, Tanya is eager to expand her skills beyond the classroom and into the community. Over the course of her teaching career, Tanya has taught Judaic studies in yeshiva high schools...
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Meggie O’Dell

Meggie O’Dell is a second-year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where she is also pursuing a master’s degree in Jewish sacred music through the H.L. Miller Cantorial School. Before coming to New York, Meggie lived in Chicago, where she completed one year at Northwestern University School of Law and later worked...
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