Rabbi Melissa Weintraub

Rabbi Melissa Weintraub is the founding Co-Executive Director of Resetting the Table, an organization dedicated to building meaningful dialogue and deliberation across political divides in American Jewish life. Melissa is a veteran facilitator and noted educator who trains leaders and builds programs at the intersections of Israel, Jewish thought and conflict resolution. Melissa was awarded the Grinnell Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize, which honors demonstrated leadership and extraordinary accomplishment in effecting positive social change. An alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship program, Melissa has lectured and taught in hundreds of Jewish communal institutions, universities, and forums on four continents and has served as a faculty member for Wexner and the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. Melissa was ordained as a Conservative Rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary and graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude.