Rabbi Rebecca Lillian

Rabbi Rebecca Lillian (RRC, 1995) serves as rabbi for Sukkat Shalom: Progressive Judaism in Stockholm and Shir Hatzafon: Progressive Judaism in Denmark. Since 2015, Rebecca has been an activist on behalf of refugees and other migrants, and has been involved with A World of Neighbours (AWON) since its founding in 2020. AWON is Europe’s only cross-sectoral, peer-to-peer European network of migration practitioners from diverse religious backgrounds with no religious affiliation. The network serves as a multi-focal, interactive forum for professional and personal development, and Rebecca is humbly proud to be the current chair of its board. Rebecca is an active member of Limmud Europe, the grassroots adult learning initiative, and enjoys improv comedy on Purim and year-round. Her most recent publication is the book chapter, “You Know the Soul of the Stranger: The Evolving Torah of Human Migration” in Living in a World of Neighbours (Ryszard Bobrowicz, Ulrich Schmiedel and Anna Hjälm, eds., forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press). She divides her time between Stockholm and Copenhagen, where she lives with her spouse, the Yiddish scholar Jan Schwarz.

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Red houses with grassy roofs beside a lake and mountains under a cloudy sky.

Antisemitism: The View from Scandinavia

March 17, 2024

An escalating fear of antisemitism from both left and right is actually much worse in the United States than in either Sweden or Denmark.

Rabbi Rebecca Lillian

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Antisemitism: The View from Scandinavia

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