Raysh Weiss

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Raysh Weiss (born 1984) is the Rabbi of Beth El of Bucks County.[1][2] From 2016-2019, Weiss served as the spiritual leader of Shaar Shalom Synagogue in Halifax, Nova Scotia[3][4] as well as the Jewish chaplain at Dalhousie University and University of King's College.[5] Weiss is also the founder and director of YentaNet[6][7] and is a social activist[8]; a musician; and a published author on popular and academic subjects for such media as Tablet Magazine,[9][10] JewSchool, Zeramim: An Online Journal of Applied Jewish Studies,[11] and My Jewish Learning.[12][13] Weiss is an alumna of both the Bronfman Fellowship (2001)[14] and the Wexner Graduate Fellowship program (class 25).[15] She has served on the national boards of both T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights and the National Havurah Committee.[16]

In 2012, Weiss, who wrote her doctoral dissertation about Yiddish musical cinema of the early 20th century,[17] 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. During her years in Minnesota, Weiss founded and helped lead an independent Jewish community, the Uptown Havurah.[18]

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.[19]

A visual artist and musician, Weiss, as an undergraduate student at Northwestern University (where she majored in Comparative Literary Studies, Philosophy, and Radio/Television/Film) founded and led Northwestern's klezmer band WildKatz![20] for whom she produced the album Party Like it's 1899 (2004), hosted and produced Continental Drift[21], 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.[22]

A filmmaker (director, actor and writer), Weiss directed the award-winning live-action film The King's Daughter and, while a student at the Jewish Theological Seminary (from which she was ordained in 2016),[23], 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.[24] During her time in Nova Scotia, Weiss was one of only two women serving as full-time senior rabbis of Conservative synagogues in Canada[25] and was a regular contributor to the "Rabbi to Rabbi" column in The Canadian Jewish News.[26][27][28] In 2015, Weiss was named by The Forward as one of the paper's "36 Under 36."[29]

Weiss is a descendant of Rabbi David Altschuler, the 17th-18th Century author of the Biblical commentaries, the Metzudat David and the Metzudat Tzion.[30][31]

References

  1. ^ "Our Rabbi".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "New Beth El leader had detours on route to rabbinate".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "The Shaar: About Us: Leadership". The Shaar.
  4. ^ Jacobson, Joel. "New Faces Arrive To Lead Halifax Jewish Institutions". CJN. The Canadian Jewish News. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  5. ^ "Allies at Dalhousie" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ Nussbaum Cohen, Debra. "21st Century Yentes: Personalized Matchmaking Makes a Comeback". Haaretz. Haaretz. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  7. ^ Wiener-Bronner, Danielle. "This Jewish matchmaking service is the anti-JDate". Splinter. Splinter. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  8. ^ "Rally organized at Halifax's Cornwallis statue for victims of Charlottesville race riots". CTV Atlantic. CTV. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  9. ^ Weiss, Raysh. "A Centuries-Old High Holiday Prayer About How Hard It Is To Pray". The Scroll. Tablet.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ Weiss, Raysh. "https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/himmel-signaln/". My Jewish Learning. Retrieved 9 April 2018. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  13. ^ Weiss, Raysh. "Haredim (Charedim), or Ultra-Orthodox Jews". My Jewish Learning. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  14. ^ "Past AVF Grantee Projects". www.bronfman.org. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  15. ^ "Complete Roster of Wexner Graduate Fellows and Alumni - Meet Our Fellows and Alumni - Programs". www.wexnerfoundation.org. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  16. ^ "Rabbi Raysh Weiss, PhD – T'ruah". www.truah.org. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  17. ^ "Recent Dissertations". College of Liberal Arts | University of Minnesota. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  18. ^ "TC Jewfolk: 50 reasons to love being Jewish in the Twin Cities".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  19. ^ Weiss, Raysh (2016). Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans, and the Transnational. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  20. ^ Scott, Carol. "Krazy for Klezmer (Close Up)". dailynorthwestern.com. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  21. ^ "Raysh Weiss". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  22. ^ Weiss, Raysh. "Seeing the Sounds:". InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visible Culture. University of Rochester. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  23. ^ Flare Staff. "#HowIMadeIt: Raysh Weiss, Congregational Rabbi". Flare. Flare Staff.
  24. ^ Skolnik, Gerald C. "It's Not Just About Race". Blog: The Times of Israel. The Jewish Week. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  25. ^ Sarick, Lisa. "New Rabbis, New Challenges". CJN. Canadian Jewish News. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  26. ^ Weiss, Raysh; Landsberg, Debra. "Rabbi To Rabbi: Guess Who's Coming To Dinner". CJN. Canadian Jewish News. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  27. ^ Cutler, Adam; Weiss, Raysh. "Rabbi2Rabbi: an email dialogue between Rabbi Adam Cutler and Rabbi Raysh Weiss (December 2016)". Beth Tzedec. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  28. ^ Landsberg, Debra; Weiss, Raysh. "Embracing Joy In Turbulent Times". CJN. The Canadian Jewish News. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  29. ^ Lipman, Steve. "Building Community and Bridges; Raysh Weiss, 31". The Forward. The Forward. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  30. ^ "The Metzudot".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  31. ^ "Altschuler, David | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2019-11-03.

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