Jared Armstrong is a 27 year-old Jewish-American professional basketball player who currently plays in Israel for Elizur Ashkelon. With the help of longtime confidant of President Biden, Rabbi Michael Beals of Congregation Beth Shalom, in 2021, Jared launched a successful public advocacy effort to persuade the Israeli Ministry of Interior to recognize his right to make aliya and claim Israeli citizenship.

Jared, who resides in Philadelphia during the off-season, has used his platform at the intersection of the Black and American Jewish experience, together with his expertise in sports, public advocacy, and education, to speak out against Anti-black racism and Antisemitism, through public speaking and education youth. In 2023, Jared started JAB Camp, a Philadelphia-based basketball camp bringing together Black and Jewish youth with the aim of teaching kids hard work, pluralism, and unity through diversity.

Jared is a graduate from Slippery Rock University.