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 politics have appeared in Jewish Currents, the Review of Rabbinic Judaism, and Zeramim.