Noah Rubin-Blose lives in Philadelphia and is in his third year of rabbinical school at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He is originally from Durham, North Carolina (the homelands of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation) and he spent the last fifteen years there working as a chef, baker, and community organizer. He is a maker of queer ritual, builder of interfaith coalitions, teacher and facilitator, and lifelong student-participant in Southern movements for racial justice. He is the author of Making the Table: Vegetarian Recipes to Nourish Community, and currently serves as a Talmud teaching fellow with SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva. When he’s not teaching or studying, you can probably find him walking by a river or cooking up something tasty in the kitchen. He is excited to be working at SAJ as the Rabbinic Intern for a second year! Noah can be reached at noah@saj.nyc.