Rabbi Ami Weintraub (he/they) is recently ordained by the Aleph Ordination Program, as part of the Renewal movement. Ami studies trance, earth based Judaism, Yiddish, and the history of magic from marginalized voices within Jewish Ashkenaz. Ami currently works as the Rabbinic Director for the independent Hebrew School, Fig Tree, in Brooklyn. He is the consultant for Liberatory Jewish Education and Practice for Achvat Olam, a fledgling diasporist Jewish day school in Boston. Ami is the founder and former director of Ratzon: Center for Healing and Resistance, a queer, Jewish, Anarchist community center in Pittsburgh, PA. In addition, Ami is the author of, “To The Ghosts Who Are Still Living,” a book of personal essays on the legacy of facism and his relationship to his ancestors’ lands in Eastern Europe. Ami’s writing and art has also appeared in other Jewish, anti-facist anthologies. In his free time, Ami likes walking in the forest and singing with friends.