Rabbanit Talia Weisberg

Rabbanit Talia Weisberg is a connector, passionate about facilitating rich Jewish experiences and helping people make informed Jewish decisions. She is currently pursuing a PhD in religion at Boston University. She received semicha from Yeshivat Maharat, where she completed shul internships at Congregation Sherith Israel in Nashville, TN and Beth David Synagogue in West Hartford, CT; worked as the Orthodox Educator at MIT Hillel in Cambridge, MA; and served as a student chaplain at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. She earned her AB at Harvard University and wrote a senior honors thesis about the Bais Yaakov girls’ school movement, of which she is an alumna, and its role in the evolution of Orthodox women’s formal religious education. In 2013, she was named as one of the Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36” young visionaries reshaping and broadening the Jewish community. She is currently working on a book about animals in the Torah.