Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater is the Executive Director of Friends in Deed, a local, religious-based non-profit addressing homelessness and poverty in the greater Pasadena area. After 5 years in congregations on the east coast, he served 12 years as senior rabbi of Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, where he established himself as an activist and...
read more

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...
read more

Danielle Kogan

Danielle graduated from the George Washington University in 2016 with a BA in Middle Eastern studies and a minor in Arabic, where she served as the J Street U GWU co-president and Southeast Regional co-chair. Before joining T’ruah, Danielle worked at the National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce (NUSACC) in New York City. Danielle was born...
read more

Rachel Lerner

Rachel, a collaborative leader and manager with experience growing nonprofit and advocacy organizations, has worked in the field of Israel/Palestine issue advocacy in the Jewish community for nearly 20 years. Prior to joining T’ruah, Rachel was a Senior Vice President at J Street, where she developed and oversaw the organization’s community engagement work and created...
read more

Matthew Berman

Matthew Berman (he/him) is an incoming rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College, expecting to graduate in 2027. Born and raised in Cincinnati, OH, Matthew attended The Ohio State University with a major in Political Science and double minors in Music and Jewish Studies. After graduating during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, he took a gap...
read more

Allen Lipson

Allen Lipson is a learner of Torah and a faith-based community organizer, most recently at the Faith in Action national network and the hotel workers’ union UNITE HERE. He has studied at Hebrew College (for ordination), the Yashrut Institute, the Yeshivat Hadar year fellowship, and the Jewish Theological Seminary. His writings on rabbinic literature and...
read more
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,...
read more

Rabbi Nancy Kasten

Rabbi Nancy Kasten is a Reform rabbi, a community educator, volunteer, and activist, as well as a certified Jewish Mindfulness Meditation Teacher. Since moving to Dallas in 1990, Nancy has led, taught, consulted, and organized in Jewish, interfaith, and secular settings locally, nationally, and internationally. She chose her title of Chief Relationship Officer when she...
read more

Jennifer Mager

Jennifer Mager is a first year rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. She is originally from Cos Cob, Connecticut and studied engineering at Brown University. She received a B.S. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. In addition to her career in engineering,...
read more

Buy Kosher Fair Trade Products

Bring human rights to your celebrations of Chanukah and Passover, to your synagogue kiddush, and more. Through partnerships with Divine Chocolate and Equal Exchange, we are proud to offer kosher fair trade Chanukah gelt, kosher-for-Passover chocolate, coffee, and more that come from companies committed to dignified working conditions and environmental sustainability. Proceeds from these purchases...
read more

Sign up for updates and action alerts

CLOSE
CLOSE