Rabbi Avi Weiss
Rabbi Avraham (Avi) Weiss is founder and president of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT), the Modern and Open Orthodox Rabbinical School in New York. He is co-founder of the International Rabbinic Fellowship (IRF), a new organization for Modern Orthodox rabbis. Rabbi Weiss is also the senior Rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale (HIR), affectionately called The Bayit. Most recently, Rabbi Weiss founded Yeshivat Mahara”t, an Orthodox school of advanced studies that trains women to become halakhic decisors and spiritual leaders.
Rabbi Weiss served as National Chairman of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) from 1982 to 1990 and subsequently as National President of AMCHA – the Coalition for Jewish Concerns, raising a voice of moral conscience on behalf of the Jewish people and humankind throughout the world.
Over the past five years, Rabbi Weiss was named one of the fifty most influential rabbis in America by Newsweek Magazine. He is the author of Women at Prayer (KTAV), and Spiritual Activism: A Jewish Guide to Leadership and Repairing the World (Jewish Lights). He is also the editor of the “Haggada for the Yom HaShoah Seder.”
Rabbi Weiss served as National Chairman of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) from 1982 to 1990 and subsequently as National President of AMCHA – the Coalition for Jewish Concerns, raising a voice of moral conscience on behalf of the Jewish people and humankind throughout the world.
Over the past five years, Rabbi Weiss was named one of the fifty most influential rabbis in America by Newsweek Magazine. He is the author of Women at Prayer (KTAV), and Spiritual Activism: A Jewish Guide to Leadership and Repairing the World (Jewish Lights). He is also the editor of the “Haggada for the Yom HaShoah Seder.”