Rabbi Kenny Weiss is the Rabbi and Executive Director for Houston Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, and Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Houston.  Prior to arriving in Houston, Rabbi Weiss served as a congregational rabbi in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C.  He has degrees in Communication and Wilderness Studies from the University of California at San Diego, a Secondary Social Studies Teaching Credential from the University of Colorado in Boulder, along with a Masters Degree in Hebrew Letters and Rabbinical Ordination from Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion. 

 

Rabbi Weiss is the chair of the Central Conference of American Rabbis Ad Hoc Committee on the Campus Rabbinate, and is a Past President of the Houston Rabbinical Association.  He is married to Rabbi Amy Weiss, Executive Director of The Initiative for Jewish Women, and they enjoy spending time with their sons, Eli and Joshua. 

 

If you wake up early enough on Sunday mornings you might find Kenny cruising around town on his unicycle and listening to the Grateful Dead.