Jessica is a National Organizer at Bend the Arc, and a Reconstructionist rabbi born, raised, and based in Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs. She became a rabbi in order to learn our people’s diverse and nuanced histories, and create spaces, ritual, and organizing that helps transform our relationships to past, present and future. Jessica has served and learned from: the visionary young people at Keshet’s LGBTQIA Teen Shabbatonim; the congregation of Kehilat HaNahar; the rabbis and members of Jewish Voice for Peace in Philadelphia and nationwide; the Congregation at SCI-Phoenix Prison; and her home congregation of Kol Tzedek.