About Me

Hello! I am Rabbanit Talia Weisberg. I view myself as a connector, passionate about facilitating rich Jewish experiences and helping people make informed Jewish decisions.

I earned semicha from Yeshivat Maharat, the first institution to ordain women as Orthodox Jewish clergy, in June 2024. While at Maharat, I 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.

Currently, I am pursuing a PhD in religion at Boston University, with a proposed dissertation topic on the history of the sheitel. I also work as a Learning Guide at Lehrhaus Tavern and House of Learning. As a Va'Tichtov fellow, I am writing a book tentatively titled Animals in the Parsha.

I volunteered for five years as the Ritual Chair on the board of the Orthodox Minyan at Harvard Hillel, a minyan that caters to students, young professionals, and young families. Professionally, I worked as the Director of Academic Affairs at the Consulate General of Israel to New England.

I earned my Bachelor of Arts at Harvard University and wrote a senior honors thesis about the Bais Yaakov girls’ school movement, of which I am an alumna, and its role in the evolution of Orthodox women’s formal religious education. I have learned Torah at Drisha and the Center for Modern Torah Leadership and participated in fellowships and courses offered by the Eden Center, iCenter, Clal, and JOIN for Justice. My written work has most recently appeared in the anthology Artifacts of Orthodox Jewish Childhoods as well as in the Forward, Alma, and as a letter to the editor in the New York Times.

In 2013, I was named as one of the Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36” young visionaries reshaping and broadening the Jewish community.