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Rabbi Brant Rosen was ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1992 and served congregations in Los Angeles and Denver before moving to the Chicago area in 1998 to become rabbi of the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation. After wrestling with his relationship to Israel and questioning his lifelong Zionism, he became a prominent Jewish presence in the Palestine solidarity movement, co-founding the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council and Ta'anit Tzedek - Jewish Fast for Gaza. In 2015 he became the founding rabbi of Tzedek Chicago, a non-Zionist congregation. Rabbi Brant's writings have appeared in many journals and publications. He is the author of a curated collection of blog posts and reader comments, Wrestling in the Daylight: A Rabbi’s Path to Palestinian Solidarity (updated edition, 2017). He is also a prolific poet and liturgist whose prayers and poems can be found on his blog Yedid Nefesh. In 2020 he was named a Topol Fellow in Conflict and Peace at Harvard Divinity School.