Noah Rubin-Blose is a first-year student at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He hails from Hillsborough, North Carolina, where he worked for years as a vegetarian chef and an interfaith community organizer for racial justice. For him, interfaith dialogue and organizing have been a way to affirm and deepen his own Jewish identity and practice — he is excited to bring this experience, along with his passion for experiential education, to the 10th grade Confirmation class.