Women of Other Faiths
Using common values contained in their respective teachings, women of all religious traditions can work together and collaborate in many areas especially peace building and women’s empowerment. Collectively women of all faiths can learn from each other’s struggles and histories, while showing support for women’s religious leadership roles worldwide. Please contribute to this archive by suggesting women of all faiths to be featured through our recommendation form.
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Rori Picker Neiss
Known For: Co-Editor: "InterActive Faith: The Essential Interreligious Community-Building Handbook”/ Consultant
Faith: Judaism
Country: United States
About
She has extensive experience working in the Jewish community and in the field of interreligious affairs. She has served as Acting Executive Director for Religions for Peace-USA, Program Coordinator for the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, and Assistant Director of Interreligious Affairs for the American Jewish Committee. While at the American Jewish Committee, Rori also served as the secretariat to the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations, the formal Jewish representative to other international religious bodies and the official partner of the Vatican in Catholic-Jewish dialogue.
Ms. Neiss received her Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies and Political Science from the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, where she researched interfaith dialogue within the Orthodox Jewish community. Her thesis, entitled The ‘Confrontation’ Within Orthodox Judaism Today, concentrated on Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s seminal treatise on the barriers to Jewish participation in interreligious dialogue. She lives in New York with her husband, Russel, a librarian at a Reform Jewish day school.
