Jericho Vincent is a spiritual entrepreneur. The founder of Temple of the Stranger, an emerging alternative mystical community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, executive director of Shuva, an organization that shares Jewish ancestral perspectives on restorative justice, and initiator of various spiritual experiments, they also teach Torah on Instagram @thealef and as a guest of various synagogues and organizations, write personal and spiritual essays that have appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, and The Cut, and conduct life cycle rituals.
Raised in an ultra-Orthodox rabbinical home, Jericho learned from Buddhist, Sufi, and atheist communities before returning to Judaism to excavate timely wisdom from their family’s ancient traditions. Jericho is the author of the memoir Cut Me Loose. They have been named to the Jewish Week’s 36 Under 36 and to The Forward’s Forward 50 for their work. Jericho holds a master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard University, where they were a Pforzheimer Fellow. Trained as an IFS coach, they are currently a Wexner Fellow, a member of the ROI community, a member of the Trans Halacha Project’s Teshuva Writing Collective, and a rabbinical candidate. They are constitutionally incapable of turning down an offer of babka.
