rori picker neiss

Maharat Rori Picker Neiss serves as the Senior Vice President for Community Relations at the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. Prior to that she was Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of St Louis, an organization committed to a vibrant and secure Jewish community in a thriving and just St Louis region, after previously serving as a member of the clergy team at Bais Abraham Congregation, a Modern Orthodox Jewish synagogue in University City, MO. Rori is also honored to serve as the Rabbi in Residence at Holy Communion Episcopal Church and at Greenville University, vice chair of the cabinet of Interfaith Partnership of Greater St. Louis, and a member of the Board of Missouri Faith Voices, the Parliament of the World's Religions, and HIAS. Rori is one of the first graduates of Yeshivat Maharat, a pioneering institution training and ordaining Orthodox Jewish women to be spiritual leaders and halakhic (Jewish legal) authorities.