Anna Calamaro

Anna Calamaro (she/her) is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College, class of 2023. A Chicago native, Anna completed her undergraduate studies in 2014 at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana campus, in Jewish Studies. She worked for four years for Metro Chicago Hillel as Director of Engagement and Jewish Life, serving students on college campuses...
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Lawrence Dreyfuss

Lawrence Dreyfuss (he/him) is a rabbinical student at Hebrew College and expects to graduate in 2026. Before coming to rabbinical school, Lawrence served as a Teach For America corps member teaching high school English at Waianae High School, a predominately native Hawaiian high school on the west coast of Oahu. While there, he also coached...
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Eliana Willis

Eliana Willis (she/her) is a rabbinical student at Hebrew College and expects to graduate in 2024. Eliana grew up in Los Angeles and earned a B.A. in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Cruz. While in Santa Cruz she organized with Fossil Free UC, a successful campaign to divest the University of California from fossil fuels....
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Julia Knobloch

Julia Knobloch is a poet and rabbi-in-training, expected to graduate from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in 2025.  She has worked for UJA-Federation of New York, where she managed large-scale volunteer events like MLK Day and 9/11 Day, as well as being a documentary filmmaker for European and US broadcasters. During her years as...
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Rabbi Laura J. Abrasley

Rabbi Laura  J. Abrasley joined the Temple Shalom clergy team in July 2015. She grew up in Houston and graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in psychology. Her path to becoming a rabbi began with many summers spent as a camper and then counselor at the URJ Greene Family Camp in Texas. After...
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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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Gen Slosberg

Gen Slosberg

Gen Xia Ye Slosberg (夏夜) (she/her) is an organizer, researcher, and writer. She grew up in Guangzhou, China, and Orange County, California. She got her start in politics working on the 2016 Presidential campaign cycle, then contributed to a few other electoral campaigns in the 2018 cycle and sharpened her organizing skills while advocating for...
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