Rabbi Jessica Fisher is the Director of Rabbinic Enrichment at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. She previously served as one of the rabbis at Beth El Synagogue Center in Westchester, NY. Jessica has a BA magna cum laude in History from Columbia University and a BA summa cum laude in Midrash from the Jewish Theological Seminary.

After working for the Greater Chicago Food Depository and launching and directing Diller Teen Fellows Chicago, Jessica returned to JTS where she was ordained and earned a master’s degree focused on gender and sexuality in rabbinic literature. She received the Lillian M. Lowenfeld Prize in Practical Theology, the Rabbi Albert Pappenheim Prize in Professional Skills, and the Stephen Henry Shefin Memorial Prize. Jessica was a participant in the Hartman Rabbinic Student Seminar in Israel, the JTS Gender, Torah, and Tradition Fellowship, and Maharat’s Va’Tichtov: She Writes Fellowship.

She has published on JTA, in the Forward, and on multiple online Jewish education platforms.

Jessica is a fourth generation Cincinnatian and until she can find a way to move back there, she will be living in Greensboro, North Carolina.