Rabbi Ari Ballaban is the Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), which builds bridges between the Jewish and non-Jewish communities, advocates on behalf of the Jewish community and Israel, fights antisemitism, and promotes social justice. Ordained by Cincinnati’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 2015, he has served as rabbi-educator and assistant rabbi, and as director of Dayton’s JCRC.
"The migrants I met at the border – and those we work with here in Cincinnati – are human beings searching for safety and better lives for themselves and their families." –Julie Leftwich
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