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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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Rabbi Salem Pearce

Salem received her rabbinic ordination from Hebrew College Rabbinical School in Boston, Mass. During her time there, she has served as the rabbinic intern at Nehar Shalom Community Synagogue and at the Synagogue Council of Massachusetts, and she was the Community Organizer at Temple Israel of Boston. She was also a mikveh guide at Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community...
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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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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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Rabbi Philip Gibbs

Rabbi Philip Gibbs was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2017. He is originally from Marietta, Georgia. At Washington University in St. Louis, he participated in the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities–an intense academic program that gives students the analytical tools to understand a topic in a fuller historical and philosophical context. Through this...
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Elana Nemitoff

Elana Nemitoff completed her first year of Rabbinical school at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem, and is excited to be taking a year off in order to improve her Hebrew and explore the landscape of Judaism in Israel. Having received a B.A. in psychology from Washington University in St Louis in 2012,...
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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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