Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg currently resides on Dakota land, also home to the Anishinaabe, known as South Minneapolis. She was raised on Lenape land, in the Philadelphia suburbs, by Ken z”l and Shelley, accidental organizers who taught her that Jewish communities should be life-giving and values-aligned, and that it is up to us to build them. 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. 

Ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, 2018, Jessica is a founding collective member of theRadical Jewish Calendar project. She organizes with Matir Asurim: Jewish Care Network for Incarcerated People and on the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council. She worked as a national organizer at Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, and has served and learned from the visionary young people at Keshet’s LGBTQIA Teen Shabbatonim and the Jewish Congregation at SCI-Phoenix Prison. She authored an Introduction to Trauma, Healing and Resilience for Rabbis, Jewish Educators and Organizers, published by Reconstructing Judaism, and co-authored, with Rabbi Ariana Katz, For Times Such as These: A Radical’s Guide to the Jewish Year, forthcoming in 2024 by Wayne State University Press.