Rabbi Ari (Ballaban) Jun 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.
"Having grown up believing in the freedom and justice the United States of America has represented to the rest of the world, we all are despondent about who we have become as a nation."
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