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'''Raysh Weiss''' (born 1984) is the spiritual leader and Senior Rabbi of [[Shaar Shalom]] Synagogue in Halifax, Nova Scotia<ref>{{cite web|title=The Shaar: About Us: Leadership|url=https://theshaar.ca/about/#leadership|website=The Shaar}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Jacobson|first1=Joel|title=New Faces Arrive To Lead Halifax Jewish Institutions|url=http://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/new-faces-arrive-lead-halifax-jewish-institutions|website=CJN|publisher=The Canadian Jewish News|accessdate=10 April 2018}}</ref>; the founder and director of YentaNet<ref>{{cite web|last1=Nussbaum Cohen|first1=Debra|title=21st Century Yentes: Personalized Matchmaking Makes a Comeback|url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-personalized-matchmaking-makes-a-comeback-1.5404263|website=Haaretz|publisher=Haaretz|accessdate=9 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Wiener-Bronner|first1=Danielle|title=This Jewish matchmaking service is the anti-JDate|url=https://splinternews.com/this-jewish-matchmaking-service-is-the-anti-jdate-1793849552|website=Splinter|publisher=Splinter|accessdate=9 April 2018}}</ref>; a social activist<ref>{{cite web|title=Rally organized at Halifax’s Cornwallis statue for victims of Charlottesville race riots|url=https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/rally-organized-at-halifax-s-cornwallis-statue-for-victims-of-charlottesville-race-riots-1.3545884|website=CTV Atlantic|publisher=CTV|accessdate=9 April 2018}}</ref>; a musician; and a published author on popular and academic subjects for such media as ''[[Tablet Magazine]],''<ref>{{cite web|last1=Weiss|first1=Raysh|title=A Centuries-Old High Holiday Prayer About How Hard It Is To Pray|url=http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/193458/a-centuries-old-high-holiday-prayer-about-how-hard-it-is-to-pray|website=The Scroll|publisher=Tablet}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Weiss|first1=Raysh|title=Elul is Judaism’s New Year For Animals. Here’s What Tradition Teaches About Our Relationship to Them.|url=http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/244275/elul-is-judaisms-new-year-for-animals-heres-what-tradition-teaches-about-our-relationship-to-them|website=The Scroll|publisher=Tablet|accessdate=9 April 2018}}</ref> ''JewSchool,'' ''Zeramim: An Online Journal of Applied Jewish Studies,''<ref>{{cite web|last1=Weiss|first1=Raysh|title=A League of Their Own: The Untold Story of the Women's League of Conservative Judaism|url=https://zeramim.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Zeramim-II-1-11022017-0117.pdf|website=Zeramim: An Online Journal of Applied Jewish Thought|publisher=Zeramim|accessdate=9 April 2018}}</ref> and ''My Jewish Learning.''<ref>{{cite web|last1=Weiss|first1=Raysh|title=https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/himmel-signaln/|url=https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/himmel-signaln/|website=My Jewish Learning|accessdate=9 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Weiss|first1=Raysh|title=Haredim (Charedim), or Ultra-Orthodox Jews|url=https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/haredim-charedim/|website=My Jewish Learning|accessdate=9 April 2018}}</ref> Weiss is an alumna of both the [[The Bronfman Fellowship|Bronfman Fellowship]] (2001)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bronfman.org/avfpastprojects|title=Past AVF Grantee Projects|website=www.bronfman.org|language=en|access-date=2018-06-04}}</ref> and the [[Wexner Graduate Fellowship]] program (class 25).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wexnerfoundation.org/programs/wexner-graduate-fellowship-br-davidson-scholars-program/meet-our-fellowswgfroster|title=Complete Roster of Wexner Graduate Fellows and Alumni - Meet Our Fellows and Alumni - Programs|website=www.wexnerfoundation.org|access-date=2018-06-04}}</ref> She has served on the national boards of both [[T'ruah|T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights]] and the National Havurah Committee.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.truah.org/people/rabbi-raysh-weiss/|title=Rabbi Raysh Weiss, PhD – T'ruah|website=www.truah.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-06-04}}</ref>
'''Raysh Weiss''' (born 1984) is the spiritual leader and Senior Rabbi of [[Shaar Shalom Synagogue]] in Halifax, Nova Scotia<ref>{{cite web|title=The Shaar: About Us: Leadership|url=https://theshaar.ca/about/#leadership|website=The Shaar}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Jacobson|first1=Joel|title=New Faces Arrive To Lead Halifax Jewish Institutions|url=http://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/new-faces-arrive-lead-halifax-jewish-institutions|website=CJN|publisher=The Canadian Jewish News|accessdate=10 April 2018}}</ref>; the founder and director of YentaNet<ref>{{cite web|last1=Nussbaum Cohen|first1=Debra|title=21st Century Yentes: Personalized Matchmaking Makes a Comeback|url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-personalized-matchmaking-makes-a-comeback-1.5404263|website=Haaretz|publisher=Haaretz|accessdate=9 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Wiener-Bronner|first1=Danielle|title=This Jewish matchmaking service is the anti-JDate|url=https://splinternews.com/this-jewish-matchmaking-service-is-the-anti-jdate-1793849552|website=Splinter|publisher=Splinter|accessdate=9 April 2018}}</ref>; a social activist<ref>{{cite web|title=Rally organized at Halifax’s Cornwallis statue for victims of Charlottesville race riots|url=https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/rally-organized-at-halifax-s-cornwallis-statue-for-victims-of-charlottesville-race-riots-1.3545884|website=CTV Atlantic|publisher=CTV|accessdate=9 April 2018}}</ref>; a musician; and a published author on popular and academic subjects for such media as ''[[Tablet Magazine]],''<ref>{{cite web|last1=Weiss|first1=Raysh|title=A Centuries-Old High Holiday Prayer About How Hard It Is To Pray|url=http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/193458/a-centuries-old-high-holiday-prayer-about-how-hard-it-is-to-pray|website=The Scroll|publisher=Tablet}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Weiss|first1=Raysh|title=Elul is Judaism’s New Year For Animals. Here’s What Tradition Teaches About Our Relationship to Them.|url=http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/244275/elul-is-judaisms-new-year-for-animals-heres-what-tradition-teaches-about-our-relationship-to-them|website=The Scroll|publisher=Tablet|accessdate=9 April 2018}}</ref> ''JewSchool,'' ''Zeramim: An Online Journal of Applied Jewish Studies,''<ref>{{cite web|last1=Weiss|first1=Raysh|title=A League of Their Own: The Untold Story of the Women's League of Conservative Judaism|url=https://zeramim.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Zeramim-II-1-11022017-0117.pdf|website=Zeramim: An Online Journal of Applied Jewish Thought|publisher=Zeramim|accessdate=9 April 2018}}</ref> and ''My Jewish Learning.''<ref>{{cite web|last1=Weiss|first1=Raysh|title=https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/himmel-signaln/|url=https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/himmel-signaln/|website=My Jewish Learning|accessdate=9 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Weiss|first1=Raysh|title=Haredim (Charedim), or Ultra-Orthodox Jews|url=https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/haredim-charedim/|website=My Jewish Learning|accessdate=9 April 2018}}</ref> Weiss is an alumna of both the [[The Bronfman Fellowship|Bronfman Fellowship]] (2001)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bronfman.org/avfpastprojects|title=Past AVF Grantee Projects|website=www.bronfman.org|language=en|access-date=2018-06-04}}</ref> and the [[Wexner Graduate Fellowship]] program (class 25).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wexnerfoundation.org/programs/wexner-graduate-fellowship-br-davidson-scholars-program/meet-our-fellowswgfroster|title=Complete Roster of Wexner Graduate Fellows and Alumni - Meet Our Fellows and Alumni - Programs|website=www.wexnerfoundation.org|access-date=2018-06-04}}</ref> She has served on the national boards of both [[T'ruah|T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights]] and the National Havurah Committee.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.truah.org/people/rabbi-raysh-weiss/|title=Rabbi Raysh Weiss, PhD – T'ruah|website=www.truah.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-06-04}}</ref>


In 2012, Weiss, who wrote her doctoral dissertation about Yiddish musical cinema of the early 20th century,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://cla.umn.edu/cscl/graduate/recent-dissertations|title=Recent Dissertations|work=College of Liberal Arts {{!}} University of Minnesota|access-date=2018-06-04|language=en}}</ref> earned her PhD in comparative literature and cultural studies at the University of Minnesota, where she had previously earned her MA with a minor concentration in Music Studies.
In 2012, Weiss, who wrote her doctoral dissertation about Yiddish musical cinema of the early 20th century,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://cla.umn.edu/cscl/graduate/recent-dissertations|title=Recent Dissertations|work=College of Liberal Arts {{!}} University of Minnesota|access-date=2018-06-04|language=en}}</ref> earned her PhD in comparative literature and cultural studies at the University of Minnesota, where she had previously earned her MA with a minor concentration in Music Studies.

Revision as of 18:27, 5 November 2018

Raysh Weiss (born 1984) is the spiritual leader and Senior Rabbi of Shaar Shalom Synagogue in Halifax, Nova Scotia[1][2]; the founder and director of YentaNet[3][4]; a social activist[5]; a musician; and a published author on popular and academic subjects for such media as Tablet Magazine,[6][7] JewSchool, Zeramim: An Online Journal of Applied Jewish Studies,[8] and My Jewish Learning.[9][10] Weiss is an alumna of both the Bronfman Fellowship (2001)[11] and the Wexner Graduate Fellowship program (class 25).[12] She has served on the national boards of both T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights and the National Havurah Committee.[13]

In 2012, Weiss, who wrote her doctoral dissertation about Yiddish musical cinema of the early 20th century,[14] earned her PhD in comparative literature and cultural studies at the University of Minnesota, where she had previously earned her MA with a minor concentration in Music Studies.

A Fulbright ethnomusicology research fellow in Berlin (2006-2007), Weiss has presented at multiple conferences and written on the origins of klezmer music and its shifting cultural reception; some of Weiss' studies on this theme can be found in her chapter "Klezmer in the New Germany: History, Identity, and Memory" in Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans, and the Transnational.[15]

A visual artist and musician, Weiss, as an undergraduate student at Northwestern University (where she majored in Comparative Literary Studies and Radio/Television/Film) founded and led Northwestern's klezmer band WildKatz![16] for whom she produced the album Party Like it's 1899 (2004), hosted and produced Continental Drift[17], the daily world music show on WNUR 89.3 fm (2005-2006), served as an award-winning political cartoonist for The Daily Northwestern, and she has written on the history and cultural narratives of the illuminated haggadah.[18]

A filmmaker (director, actor and writer), Weiss directed the award-winning short film The King's Daughter and, while a student at the Jewish Theological Seminary (from which she was ordained in 2016),[19], Weiss co-wrote and acted in a satirical video "If Men Rabbis Were Spoken To The Way Women Rabbis Are Spoken To," which, in The Jewish Week, opened up a conversation about gender equity in the rabbinate.[20] Weiss, one of only two women serving as full-time senior rabbis of Conservative synagogues in Canada,[21] is a regular contributor to the "Rabbi to Rabbi" column in The Canadian Jewish News.[22][23][24] In 2015, Weiss was named by The Forward as one of the paper's "36 Under 36."[25]

References

  1. ^ "The Shaar: About Us: Leadership". The Shaar.
  2. ^ Jacobson, Joel. "New Faces Arrive To Lead Halifax Jewish Institutions". CJN. The Canadian Jewish News. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  3. ^ Nussbaum Cohen, Debra. "21st Century Yentes: Personalized Matchmaking Makes a Comeback". Haaretz. Haaretz. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  4. ^ Wiener-Bronner, Danielle. "This Jewish matchmaking service is the anti-JDate". Splinter. Splinter. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  5. ^ "Rally organized at Halifax's Cornwallis statue for victims of Charlottesville race riots". CTV Atlantic. CTV. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  6. ^ Weiss, Raysh. "A Centuries-Old High Holiday Prayer About How Hard It Is To Pray". The Scroll. Tablet.
  7. ^ Weiss, Raysh. "Elul is Judaism's New Year For Animals. Here's What Tradition Teaches About Our Relationship to Them". The Scroll. Tablet. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  8. ^ Weiss, Raysh. "A League of Their Own: The Untold Story of the Women's League of Conservative Judaism" (PDF). Zeramim: An Online Journal of Applied Jewish Thought. Zeramim. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  9. ^ Weiss, Raysh. "https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/himmel-signaln/". My Jewish Learning. Retrieved 9 April 2018. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  10. ^ Weiss, Raysh. "Haredim (Charedim), or Ultra-Orthodox Jews". My Jewish Learning. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  11. ^ "Past AVF Grantee Projects". www.bronfman.org. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  12. ^ "Complete Roster of Wexner Graduate Fellows and Alumni - Meet Our Fellows and Alumni - Programs". www.wexnerfoundation.org. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  13. ^ "Rabbi Raysh Weiss, PhD – T'ruah". www.truah.org. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  14. ^ "Recent Dissertations". College of Liberal Arts | University of Minnesota. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  15. ^ Weiss, Raysh (2016). Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans, and the Transnational. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  16. ^ Scott, Carol. "Krazy for Klezmer (Close Up)". dailynorthwestern.com. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  17. ^ "Raysh Weiss". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  18. ^ Weiss, Raysh. "Seeing the Sounds:". InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visible Culture. University of Rochester. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  19. ^ Flare Staff. "#HowIMadeIt: Raysh Weiss, Congregational Rabbi". Flare. Flare Staff.
  20. ^ Skolnik, Gerald C. "It's Not Just About Race". Blog: The Times of Israel. The Jewish Week. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  21. ^ Sarick, Lisa. "New Rabbis, New Challenges". CJN. Canadian Jewish News. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  22. ^ Weiss, Raysh; Landsberg, Debra. "Rabbi To Rabbi: Guess Who's Coming To Dinner". CJN. Canadian Jewish News. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  23. ^ Cutler, Adam; Weiss, Raysh. "Rabbi2Rabbi: an email dialogue between Rabbi Adam Cutler and Rabbi Raysh Weiss (December 2016)". Beth Tzedec. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  24. ^ Landsberg, Debra; Weiss, Raysh. "Embracing Joy In Turbulent Times". CJN. The Canadian Jewish News. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  25. ^ Lipman, Steve. "Building Community and Bridges; Raysh Weiss, 31". The Forward. The Forward. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
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