Co-host
What Our Faith Demands - Rev. Raquel Alston, Rev. Tanya Spencer, Rabbi Jonathan Freirich
What our faith demands.
A multi-faith discussion and action plan: the discussion of three faith leaders, two African American Methodists, Rev. Raquel Alston and Rev. Tanya Spencer, and one Jewish rabbi, Rabbi Jonathan Freirich, focusing on energizing cross-community partnership and building bridges that lead to community collaboration.
Supported in part by a grant from:
A More Perfect Union - Jewish Partnership for Democracy
https://www.jewishdemocracy.org/
Contributors
Guests
Guest
Rabbi Shais Rishon
Rabbi Shais Rishon is an Orthodox rabbi, writer, educator, and public intellectual whose work bridges Jewish tradition, racial identity, and contemporary American life.
The oldest of five to two African-American Orthodox Jewish parents, his father a convert, his mother tracing her African-American Jewish heritage back to the late-eighteenth century, he was raised CHaBa"D-Lubavitch in Brooklyn, NY.
Rabbi Rishon received his first Orthodox rabbinical ordination in 2018, earning a private Orthodox ordination while simultaneously pursuing his CHaBa"D ordination.
He lives with his wife, Tifarah Rishon, and their blended family of daughters. Together, they are committed to building visible, rooted, and halakhically grounded Eidot CHeMDaT"A communal life in the Diaspora.
Rabbi Shais Rishon can be reached at rabbishais@eidotchemdata.org.