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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Mimi Micner

Mimi Micner is currently a rabbinical student at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts. Before attending Hebrew College, she was the Senior New England Campus Organizer with J Street U, where she organized college students for a two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Before working at J Street U, Mimi was a union organizer with...
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Sienna Lotenberg

Sienna Lotenberg is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, expecting to graduate in 2023. Born and raised outside Washington, DC, she fell in love with Judaism at Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church, VA. Prior to rabbinical school, Sienna lived in Providence, RI, while earning her bachelor’s degree in History and...
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Kelly Whitehead

Kelly Whitehead is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (’24). Kelly grew up in New York City before moving to Washington DC, where she graduated from American University (BA History ’15). Prior to rabbinical school, Kelly worked as the Youth Engagement Specialist at Temple Sinai in Washington D.C. Kelly’s love of the...
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Preston “Pesach” D. Neimeiser

Preston “Pesach” D. Neimeiser (he/him/his) is a rabbinical student at HUC in New York, expecting to graduate in 2021. He was born in Tallahassee, Florida the second son of two activists dedicated to the American labor movement, and grew up steeped in the Reform movement through synagogue, camp, youth group, and Israel experiences. He holds...
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Jenna Shaw

Jenna Shaw (they/them/theirs) is a rabbinical student at Hebrew College in Newton, MA, in the class of 2023. Jenna grew up in Chicago and fell in love with political activism and the ways that social justice interacts with their Jewish identity when they stumbled into a local mayoral campaign office. Their deep call to activism...
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Becky Jaye

Becky Jaye (she/her) is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, in New York, class of 2022. Becky is proudly from Brooklyn, New York, where she was raised in an interfaith home. Becky completed her undergraduate degree in American Studies at Yale College and then completed a two-year fellowship in...
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Danny Stein

Danny Stein (he/him) is a rabbinical student at Hebrew College (Class of 2023). He grew up in the Chicagoland Reform movement, spending many summers at Camp OSRUI in Wisconsin. Graduating American University with a degree in public communication and marketing, he moved on to Hebrew University in Jerusalem, which together with Svara in Chicago ignited...
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Adam Gillman

Adam Gillman (he/him) is a rabbinical student at The Jewish Theology Seminary (class of 2023). A native of Seattle, he is passionate about creating intentional spaces in which spiritual practice, environmental and racial justice, and egalitarian leadership can play grounding roles in letting learners discover how they can contribute to their communities, especially among those...
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