Daniel is a student at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School, expecting to be ordained in 2019, and a resident of the vibrant community in Washington Heights, Manhattan. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Honors Program at Yeshiva University, with majors in Psychology and Medieval Jewish Studies, where he also served as Managing Editor and Senior…
Atara Cohen is a student at Yeshivat Maharat, expecting to be ordained in 2020, who hopes to inspire her future congregants to connect Torah with social justice work. She graduated from Princeton University with a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Judaic Studies. Through her undergraduate studies, she focused on the impact of text on…
Ben Goldberg is a rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he is also earning an MA in Midrash, and will be ordained in 2018. During the 2016-7 school year, Ben was Rabbinic Intern at Rutgers University Hillel and also at Congregation Beth Israel in Scotch Plains, NJ. During previous rabbinical…
Rabbi Jill Jacobs (she/her) is the CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, an organization that trains and mobilizes more than 2,300 rabbis and cantors and their communities to bring a moral voice to protecting and advancing human rights in North America, Israel, and the occupied Palestinian territories. She is the author of…
Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster (she/her) is the lead strategist on T’ruah’s human rights campaigns and heads the organizing and training of more than 2,000 rabbis and cantors. Ordained in 2008 from the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she was a student activist and leader, she is a noted speaker and writer on Judaism and human rights. She…
Lev (he/him) was ordained in 2013 from Hebrew College, where he was a Wexner Graduate Fellow. In 2017, Lev was honored by the Covenant Foundation with a Pomegranate Prize, which recognizes early-career Jewish educators. Before attending rabbinical school, Lev taught fifth grade at the Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan for three years and worked for…
Prior to finding her path on the Jewish social justice circuit by joining the T’ruah team in 2011, Ronit (she/her) enjoyed a career in performing arts. She helped launch and run the Castleton Festival, an annual international opera festival under the artistic direction of Maestro Lorin Maazel, and has worked for and consulted with organizations…
Ayelet has three decades of experience working on campaigns for public health, workers rights, the environment, human rights, public safety, gay rights, environmental justice, animal rights and political candidates in more than 20 states and internationally. Ayelet’s career has involved organizing, strategic communications, non-violent direct action, lobbying, training, Get-Out-the-Vote, fundraising, and publishing for Environmental Defense Fund,…
Rabbi Raysh Weiss holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature from the University of Minnesota. She was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2016. During her summer with T’ruah, she interned at CAAAV. Raysh also served as a student member of T’ruah’s board from 2014-2016.
Rabbi Avi Strausberg was ordained by the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College in 2015. During her summer with T’ruah, she interned at Damayan Migrant Workers Association.