Rabbi Talya Weisbard Shalem
Rabbi Talya Weisbard Shalem has served as rabbi of Congregation Agudas Achim in Attleboro since 2022. She received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard College in Social Anthropology in 2000, and graduated from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 2006. She recently completed a graduate certificate in Jewish experiential education at Hebrew College (2023), and a masters concentration in Israel education from the iCenter iFellows program (2017).
She has had a varied career as a rabbi, including serving as the rabbi of Temple B’nai Israel of Revere and at Wellesley College Hillel, and as education director at Tifereth Israel Congregation in New Bedford. She has taught across the Jewish world, at Habonim Dror Camp Galil and the Boston Worker’s Circle Shule, as well as at Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative, and unaffiliated Hebrew Schools, teen summer programs (BIMA and Genesis) and adult education programs. She has served on the board of the National Havurah Committee, and taught both children and adults at its summer institutes. She helped plan for and open the first Reconstructionist summer camp (now called Camp Havaya) and youth movement Noar Hadash. Before studying for the rabbinate, she worked as a community organizer through the Jewish Organizing Initiative (JOIN for Justice) fellowship, working on immigrants’ rights and cross-cultural programming at the Irish Immigration Center in downtown Boston.
She lives in Burlington, Massachusetts with her teenage son Noam.
Ordination:
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 508-222-2243
website: www.agudasma.org
address: Congregation Agudas Achim, 901 N Main St, Attleboro, MA 02703
She has had a varied career as a rabbi, including serving as the rabbi of Temple B’nai Israel of Revere and at Wellesley College Hillel, and as education director at Tifereth Israel Congregation in New Bedford. She has taught across the Jewish world, at Habonim Dror Camp Galil and the Boston Worker’s Circle Shule, as well as at Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative, and unaffiliated Hebrew Schools, teen summer programs (BIMA and Genesis) and adult education programs. She has served on the board of the National Havurah Committee, and taught both children and adults at its summer institutes. She helped plan for and open the first Reconstructionist summer camp (now called Camp Havaya) and youth movement Noar Hadash. Before studying for the rabbinate, she worked as a community organizer through the Jewish Organizing Initiative (JOIN for Justice) fellowship, working on immigrants’ rights and cross-cultural programming at the Irish Immigration Center in downtown Boston.
She lives in Burlington, Massachusetts with her teenage son Noam.
Ordination:
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 508-222-2243
website: www.agudasma.org
address: Congregation Agudas Achim, 901 N Main St, Attleboro, MA 02703