RABBI, COMMUNITY BUILDER, SPIRITUAL CONNECTOR

Abi Weber is a student at the Jewish Theological Seminary and will be ordained as a rabbi in spring 2021. She currently serves as the Slifka-Nadich Rabbinic Intern at the Center for Jewish Life/Princeton Hillel of Princeton University and has built a new community of Jewish seekers among young faculty, staff, and postdoctoral fellows. Abi recently completed two years as a Marshall T. Meyer Rabbinic Fellow at Congregation B'nai Jeshurun in New York City, where she developed programming around prayer and spirituality, facilitated the 20s/30s group, and participated in the clergy team. Abi grew up in Evanston, Illinois, and graduated from Pomona College in 2011, where she studied anthropology and wrote a senior thesis comparing traditional marriage practices of the Bamileke ethnic group of Cameroon and Orthodox Jews in Los Angeles. Before starting rabbinical school, Abi worked as an Employment Preparation Trainer for people experiencing homelessness and poverty, served as a Rabbinic Intern/Leadership Fellow at Mishkan Chicago, and spent time working in the ski industry in Colorado. She completed a chaplaincy internship at the Princeton Medical Center, providing pastoral care for patients in the Critical Care Unit in addition to leading outpatient recovery groups focused on spirituality. Abi is a proud alum of Camp Ramah in the Poconos, Avodah: The Jewish Service Corps, and Moishe House. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with her wife Diana and their daughter Yara.