About Rav Jericho

Rav Jericho Vincent is the founding rabbi of Temple of the Stranger, a Brooklyn-based Ivri community for embodied, mystical, inclusive Judaism. A Judeofuturist and teacher, they are ordained in both Renewal and Hasidic lineages and hold a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard University, where they were a Pforzheimer Fellow.

Raised in a rabbinic ultra-Orthodox family, Rav Jericho is a first-generation college graduate. They earned a Presidential Scholarship to Brooklyn College, completing their BA in Psychology as a night student while running nonprofit programs for refugees, job seekers, and at-risk youth by day. During graduate study at Harvard, they worked for Mayor Cory Booker's Office of Innovation and Performance Management. Afterward, they served as a philanthropic consultant specializing in addressing poverty, before becoming a community organizer with the emerging ex-ultra-Orthodox movement, where they co-developed the It Gets Besser project, served as associate editor of Unpious, and served on the board of Footsteps.

Rav Jericho is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Cut Me Loose (Doubleday/Penguin, 2014) and the forthcoming Speak to the Bones: A Jewish Book of Spells (Ayin Press, 2026) and Sacred Rebels: Strangers, Edgewalkers, and the Future of Judaism(Ayin Press, 2027); their essays have appeared in theNew York Times, the Rumpus, and The Cut. They have taught as the Marvin and Edward Kaplan Lecturer in the Jewish Studies department at City College and as an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College's Silberman School of Social Work, and have been a guest teacher at dozens of communities across the country. They created and hosted the limited series podcast Survival Guide for a Spiritual Wilderness, and teach Torah to more than 18,000 followers and hundreds of thousands of viewers on Instagram and on Substack.

A midwife of the Ivri Movement, Rav Jericho serves as an advisor to Beit Kohenet and The Shalom Center; is a member of B'not Esh and the Schusterman ROI Community; and was a recent fellow at Atra: The Center for Rabbinic Innovation. They received the 2025 Young History Maker Award from the LGBTQ Religious Archives, and their work has been recognized by the Forward 50 and the Jewish Week’s 36 Under 36. They have been interviewed by Katie Couric, NPR's All Things Considered, The Leonard Lopate Show, and Elle Magazine.

Rav Jericho lives in Brooklyn, New York with their partner, Dr. Ben Blum, their children, and their cats, Ziz and Griffin. In their spare time, they enjoy biking through the city, painting portraits in acrylic, reading sci-fi, and participating in living room dance parties.