Ep. 3 - The Refugee Welcome with Rabbi Rachel Grant Meyer

Rabbi Rachel Grant Meyer is the Director of Education for Community Engagement at HIAS. HIAS has been supporting refugee aid and assistance and has been a beacon of refugee advocacy for over 130 years. Rabbi Meyer is a graduate of Columbia University and was ordained as a Rabbi at Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion. Rabbi Meyer has a long history as a defender of human rights, interning with Rabbis for Human Rights and being a vocal activist during her time as an assistant Rabbi at Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York City. Since 2015 when she joined HIAS, Rabbi Meyer has dedicated her time bridging the information gap between Jewish values and history, and the contemporary challenges being faced by today’s refugee communities. She has been published in the Forward and wrote an essay that is featured in the book “Seven Days, Many Voices: Insights into the biblical stories of creation.