Rabbi Dr. Jason Weiner, BCC, is senior rabbi and executive director of the Spiritual Care Department at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, overseeing the chaplaincy team and all spiritual care services across the health system. He also serves as rabbi of Knesset Israel Synagogue of Beverlywood, and senior consultant to Ematai.
Previously assistant rabbi at Young Israel of Century City, Rabbi Weiner holds two rabbinic ordinations, a Doctorate in Clinical Bioethics and a master’s in bioethics and health policy from Loyola University (Chicago), and a master’s in Jewish history from Yeshiva University. He completed four units of clinical pastoral education and is a board-certified chaplain.
He serves on the executive committee of the Cedars-Sinai Bioethics Committee and is a past president of the Southern California Board of Rabbis. He has received Chaplaincy and Rabbinic Leadership Awards from the Rabbinical Council of America, Orthodox Union, Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains, Chabad On-Call, and Chai Lifeline. In 2023, he donated a kidney to a stranger.
Rabbi Weiner frequently lectures nationwide as a scholar-in-residence on Jewish medical ethics, pastoral care, health, and wellness, and teaches hands-on Jewish medical ethics to Jewish high schools throughout Los Angeles.
In addition to dozens of articles and book chapters, he is the author of Guide to Observance of Jewish Law in a Hospital (Kodesh Press), Jewish Guide to Practical Medical Decision-Making (Urim Press), cited in a Supreme Court briefing, and Care and Covenant: A Jewish Bioethic of Responsibility (Georgetown University Press), a finalist for the Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Book Prize.
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On Rabbi Weiner’s Work in the Hospital During Holidays
On Rabbi Weiner’s Work in the Hospital During the Pandemic