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Rabbanit Talia Weisberg

Rabbanit Talia Weisberg is a connector, passionate about facilitating rich Jewish experiences and helping people make informed Jewish decisions. She received semicha from Yeshivat Maharat, the first institution to ordain women as Orthodox Jewish clergy, and is currently pursuing a PhD in religion at Boston University, with a proposed dissertation topic on the history of the sheitel. She earned an 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.

She is the spiritual leader of a Modern Orthodox community, Kehillat Lev Chochma, in her home of Cambridge, MA. She also serves as a Learning Guide at Lehrhaus Tavern and House of Learning, and is writing a book for lay audiences tentatively titled "Animals in the Parsha" with support from the Va’Tichtov fellowship. She has had the privilege of learning and teaching Torah as an intern at Congregation Sherith Israel in Nashville, TN and Beth David Synagogue in West Hartford, CT, as the Orthodox Educator at MIT Hillel in Cambridge, MA, and as a student chaplain at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.​​​​​ She has participated in fellowships and courses offered by Drisha, the Center for Modern Torah Leadership, the Eden Center, iCenter, Clal, and JOIN for Justice. In 2013, she was named as one of the Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36” young visionaries reshaping and broadening the Jewish community.