Jason Fenster is a second year rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Before coming to rabbinical school, Jason served as an Eisendrath Legislative Assistant at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism where he focused on issues of gun control, LGBT equality, criminal justice, disability rights, and voting rights. After his fellowship, he worked as the Communication Associate at the Justice Policy Institute, a criminal justice research and policy organization working to reduce society’s reliance on incarceration. Jason graduated from Brandeis University in 2008, where he acted in and directed musicals, was actively involved in the Jewish community, and met his incredible wife, Gavi.
This summer, Jason is interning at Make the Road NY, an organization that builds the power of Latino and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival services. He is helping to build community relationships that lay groundwork for implementation of the immigration reforms that Congress will hopefully pass this summer.
