Rabbi Hilly Haber

Rabbi Hilly Haber head shot

Rabbi Hilly Haber serves as the Director of Social Justice Organizing and Education at Central Synagogue in New York City. With the Central community, Rabbi Haber works with people coming home from jail and prison and advocates for criminal justice reform in New York. Rabbi Haber has also taught on Rikers Island, served as a chaplain in other jail and prison settings in the New York area, and is a current doctoral student at Union Theological Seminary in the field of Social Ethics.

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Pandemic in the Petri Dish of Prison: A Jewish Call for Justice

Rabbi Hilly Haber
Rabbi Rick Jacobs

The Book of Proverbs instructs us to “speak up for those who cannot speak...to raise our voices on behalf of the vulnerable and downtrodden.” (Proverbs 31:8-9). The individuals who make up America’s prison population are isolated, vulnerable, and voiceless.