Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein

Aryeh Bernstein is a fifth-generation Chicago South Sider with extensive experience in Torah education, especially in progressive Jewish communities. Aryeh works as a national Jewish educator for Avodah; an educational consultant for the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs; a staff educator for the Jewish Initiative for Animals; is a T’ruah Jewish Law and Ethics COVID-19 Hackathon research fellow; and has previously taught and directed programs at Hadar Institute, Mishkan Chicago, Camp Ramah in Wisconsin, as well as campuses, communities and organizations around the United States and Israel. A former editor-translator for the Koren English edition of the Steinsaltz Talmud and a senior editor of Jewschool.com, Aryeh studied at Yeshivat Ma’ale Gilboa, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University and Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, and has rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes’s Yashrut Institute.

Essays

The Torah Case for Reparations: A Jewish View

October 21, 2020

The biblical narrative of the Exodus from slavery understands the reparations taken by the Israelites to be an essential part of the redemption from servitude.

Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein

Essays

The Torah Case for Reparations: A Jewish View

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