Rabbi Burt Jacobson, social activist and founder of Bay Area Renewal synagogue, dies at 87
Rabbi Jacobson envisioned an inclusive community, where people who didn’t feel welcome in more traditional Jewish environments would feel at home.
Rabbi Burt Jacobson leads a pre-Passover seder as part of a protest at a Nevada nuclear test site on April 12, 1987.(photo credit: Tamar Kaufman)ByALIX WALL/JTA
