We are pleased to welcome Rabbi Jill Jacobs as our Torah Study leader on June 21st. Register below.

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.

She has published in The Washington Post, Slate, NBCNews.Com, JTA, the Forward, the Jerusalem Post, and other publications, as well as chapters in more than a dozen edited volumes. She has appeared as a commenter on MSNBC, CNN, CodeSwitch, and other media. She has been named three times to the Forward’s list of 50 influential American Jews and to Newsweek’s list of the 50 Most Influential Rabbis in America. The New York Times featured her as one of “Six New Yorkers Who Made the City a Better, Cooler, Fairer Place in 2023.” 

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.

Regrettably, Rabbi Jacobs will be unable to be present to lead Torah Study this Shabbat. We are pleased to have Rabbi Ilan Schwartz lead this week's session instead.