Rabbi Jill Jacobs is the Executive Director of T’ruah, which mobilizes 2,000 rabbis and cantors and tens of thousands of American Jews to protect and advance human rights in North America and Israel. 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:
- The False Comfort of Trump’s Condemnation of Anti-Semitism (2/8/19)
- Your Tax Dollars Are Propping up the Intellectual Heirs to and Israeli Terrorist (1/11/19)
- How to Tell When Criticism of Israel Is Actually Anti-Semitism (5/18/18)
