My parents did not start blessing me on Friday nights until I was in high school. What inspired the change? The “aha” moment for them ...
Biography
Rabbi Rebecca Weintraub completed her studies at the Hebrew College Rabbinical School in Boston, where she was ordained in June 2020. She joined B’nai Jeshurun as our assistant rabbi in July 2020.
In addition to her studies, Becca has served as mikvah guide at Mayyim Hayyim Community Mikveh, alumni coordinator for the Hadar Institute, and has been a member of the Community Hevra Kadisha of Greater Boston. She was previously the rabbinic intern at Temple Emunah in Lexington, MA, and Beth El Synagogue Center in New Rochelle, NY.
Articles Written by
Rebecca Weintraub
Toward Shabbat: Shemini
I sat surrounded by a cloud of hundreds of other kids and adults, each wearing all white, singing and praying the words of poet Haim ...
Toward Shabbat: Ki Tissa
I often think of Shabbat as a homecoming at the end of my week. Just as after a long day of work or school or ...
Toward Shabbat: Beshalah
When my husband Jeremy first mentioned the idea of using cloth diapers for our daughter, I laughed. After quite a few back and forths, a ...
Toward Shabbat: Weintraub
One of my favorite Hasidic tales is about the wandering brothers, Rabbi Elimelech of Lizensk and Rabbi Zushe of Anipoli. The two brothers were often ...
Toward Shabbat: Toledot
My husband, Jeremy, and I both agree that, whenever we move into a new apartment, it doesn’t quite feel like home until we have hosted ...
Homelessness in our Community
Over the past few weeks, a controversy has erupted on the Upper West Side regarding the temporary use of local hotels to shelter men experiencing ...
Toward Shabbat: Devarim
In high school, I decided that I was going to become shomeret Shabbat, to keep Shabbat in a more traditional way. When I made this ...