10.15.18 - Singing with the extended Hebrew College community for Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld’s installation as President of Hebrew College, with Matt Ponak.
Jackson is the Rabbi of Base BSTN, a pluralistic Jewish community in Cambridge helping folks deepen their relationship to Judaism through Jewish learning, Jewish creativity, Jewish food, and Jewish community.
Jackson was ordained at the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College in Newton, MA with a Specialization in Spirituality and Social Justice and a Masters in Jewish Education with a concentration in Israel Education in conjunction with the iCenter. Jackson was apart of the inaugural cohort of The Nachshon Project’s undergraduate fellowship as well as the first cohort of Graduate School Fellows as well as being a Hartman Limmud Rabbinic Fellow and one of the inaugural Learning Fellow’s at Lehrhaus: Jewish Tavern and House of Learning in Boston. He has worked to build singing prayer communities across the country in California (Congregation Rodef Sholom, URJ Camp Newman, University Synagogue, and NFTY), in New York (at Kehillat Romemu as the Joseph S. Ingber Rabbinic Fellow) as well as here in Boston (Asiyah Jewish Community, Temple Beth Sholom of Framingham, and Mishkan Tefilah). When not recording his own music, like his most recent album – “Notnim B’ahavah Reshut”, Jackson sings with the Chaverai Nevarech Band featured on R’ Josh Warshawsky’s albums.
His two newest adventures focus on the intersection of Jewish interpretation and the creative arts, seeking to bring intimate connections to Judaism across all backgrounds and denominations: intentional Judaica called Hiddur Mitzvah, partnering with Binah Designs to create innovative, tangible aspects of ritual and as well as the Base BSTN, a community built around engaging with Judaism through creativity.
“One who speaks of the praises and glory of The Divine is like one who recounts that there is a great light [like the sun] that shines in a certain place far away. But one who sings a song of praise and glory for The Divine is like one who brings a candle close from far away...”