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Alicia Jo Rabins

Alicia Jo Rabins is a writer, musician, performer and Torah teacher. She is the author of two award-winning poetry books and the creator/performer of Girls in Trouble, a three-album indie-folk song cycle about women in Torah. Rabins tours internationally from her home base in Portland, Oregon, USA.

Dave Rich

Dave Rich is director of policy for CST. He is an associate research fellow at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. He is author of the book "The Left's Jewish Problem" and writes regularly about antisemitism and extremism for newspapers and journals in the UK and abroad.

Rachel Riley

Rachel is C4 Countdown's numbers expert. She graduated from Oxford, with a Masters in Maths and has campaigned against antisemitism after being targeted on social media. She won The Algemeiner's Warrior for Truth award 2019, and is patron of The Center for Countering Digital Hate, targeting fake news sites' ad revenues and lobbying social media companies.

Mira Rivera

Rabbi Mira Rivera serves Romemu in New York City as Rabbi/Board Certified Chaplain and Ammud: the Jews of Color Torah Academy. https://www.romemu.org/about/staff/. Prior to Rabbinical School at the Jewish Theological Seminary, she danced for the Martha Graham Dance Company and Ensemble with mentor Yuriko Kikuchi.

Assael Romanelli

Assael Romanelli PhD is a licensed Couples & Family Therapist and an international trainer and facilitator. He is the founder and director of The Potential State Institute For Enriching Relationships, which incorporates therapy, art, and education to create safe spaces for people to connect to themselves and others.

Aviva Rosman

Aviva Rosman is the COO and co-founder of BallotReady, an award-winning voter guide to every race and referendum on the ballot. Aviva grew up working on campaigns, including her own successful run for local office. She has a BA and Masters from the University of Chicago, both in public policy.

Jason Rubenstein

Jason serves Yale's Jewish community as the Howard M. Holtzmann Jewish Chaplain. He grew up at Temple Micah, and spent wonderful years at Ma’ale Gilboa, JTS, and Yeshivat Hadar. His dream is for Jewish philosophy to help us do the hard work of being humans – navigating love and loss, mortality, fear and hope, caring and betrayal.