Rabbi Benjamin Weiner, Spiritual Leader for the Jewish Community of Amherst, MA

A 2008 graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Rabbi Weiner is now in his sixth year as the spiritual leader of the Jewish Community of Amherst. 

While in rabbinical school, he also served as a chaplain for adults with mental illness, Jewish elders, and terminally ill hospital patients. In addition, he was an intern in the RRC archives, analyzing the Hebrew and Yiddish letters of Mordechai Kaplan and at the Institute for Christian-Jewish Study in Baltimore. Prior to his occupancy in Amherst, he served for three years as half-time rabbi and education director at Mishkan Ha'am, a Reconstructionist community in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. Rabbi Benjamin Weiner is also a writer, a scholar of Yiddish and Irish literature, a musician, and a homesteader