Rabbi John Friedman serves as national chair of Brit Tzedek's Rabbinic Cabinet. He was also the founding chair of the Durham/Chapel Hill chapter of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom and serves on its national board. Friedman has been rabbi of Judea Reform Congregation in Durham, North Carolina for twenty-six years. He was ordained at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1976.

Rabbi Friedman attended rabbinical school at the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem and has visited Israel frequently since. In 1997, he was part of a delegation of rabbis that met with Palestinian Authority leadership in Ramallah.

Rabbi Friedman attended the University of Kansas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Harvard University where he was a Charles Merrill Fellow in 1994. He received a doctorate from the Hebrew Union College. His articles on Bible, Jewish literature, Jewish education, and Black-Jewish relations have been published in a variety of journals.

Rabbi Julie Saxe-Taller serves as co-chair of Brit Tzedek's Rabbinic Cabinet and as a board member of the Bay Area chapter of the Progressive Jewish Alliance, a organization dedicated to asserting a progressive Jewish presence in social and economic justice campaigns. She is the Associate Rabbi of Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco, California.