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 Where Justice Dwells: A Hands-On Guide to Doing Social Justice in Your Jewish Community and There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice through Jewish Law and Tradition, both published by Jewish Lights.
Rabbi Jacobs has been named three times to the Forward’s list of 50 influential American Jews, to Newsweek’s list of the 50 Most Influential Rabbis in America, and to the Jerusalem Post’s 2013 list of “Women to Watch.” She holds rabbinic ordination and an MA in Talmud from the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she was a Wexner Fellow; an MS in Urban Affairs from Hunter College, and a BA from Columbia University. She is also a graduate of the Mandel Institute Jerusalem Fellows Program. She lives in New York with her husband, Rabbi Guy Austrian, and their two daughters.
Read Rabbi Jacobs’ recent op-eds in The Washington Post:
- Trump Still Appears to Believe All Jews are Israelis (12/12/19)
- The False Comfort of Trump’s Condemnation of Anti-Semitism (2/8/19)
- Your Tax Dollars Are Propping up the Intellectual Heirs to an Israeli Terrorist (1/11/19)
Watch Rabbi Jacobs on MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews”
Watch Rabbi Jacobs with the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt on MSNBC’s “Velshi & Ruhle.”
Listen to Rabbi Jacobs on NPR’s “Code Switch.”
To arrange an interview with Rabbi Jacobs, email vcano@truah.org.
