Berkley Center

Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub serves as rabbinic director of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, a mental health/social service agency that serves New Yorkers of all religious, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds through a network of community-based programs, residential facilities, and day-treatment centers. Weintraub is actively involved in Jewish and interfaith efforts related to strengthening intergroup relations and human rights, especially concerning anti-racism, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the fight against human trafficking; he also maintains a private practice in couples/family therapy. He is a founder of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. He conceived and edited Healing of Soul, Healing of Body (1994) and is the author of Guide Me Along the Way: A Jewish Spiritual Companion for Surgery (2002). Weintraub, ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1982, received a Master in Social Work degree from Columbia in 1983 and graduated from the Couples/Family Therapy Program of the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health in 1988.