As Director of Social Justice Organizing and Education since 2019, Rabbi Hilly Haber, PhD, works with the lay leaders in Central’s Community Organizing Leadership Team (COLT) on systemic justice issues such as criminal justice reform and immigration. 

Rabbi Haber has taught men and women on Rikers Island through Manhattan College. She and her wife, Rabbi Rachel Marder of Congregation Beth El in South Orange, New Jersey, are the rabbinic chaplains at Northern State Prison in Newark, New Jersey.   

Ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Rabbi Haber was a Wexner Graduate Fellow and a Tisch Fellow. She previously served as the Director of Urban Mitzvah Corps in New Brunswick, as an intern at Temple Beth Jacob in California, and as an intern with the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR). She is a contributor to the CCAR Press book, “Moral Resistance and Spiritual Authority: Our Jewish Obligation to Social Justice.”  She also authored Central Synagogue's 2024 Haggadah Supplement to mark the first Passover after October 7.

Prior to joining Central, she was a student rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Westfield, New Jersey. Rabbi Haber is a graduate of Hebrew Union College. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College, a master’s in theological studies from Harvard Divinity School, and in 2025 she completed a PhD in Social Ethics from Union Theological Seminary.

Rabbi Haber lives in New Jersey where she and her wife are raising young sons.