Rabbi Ronald Weiss

Born in Boston, Massachusetts , Rabbi Ronald Weiss received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Po litics from Brandeis University; a Masters degree in Jewish Education and Rabbinic Ordination from Yeshiva University.  He was in the pulpit rabbinate for twelve years, serving congregational communities in Binghamton , New York and Longmeadow , Massachusetts . 

Rabbi Weiss moved to Toronto in July, 1994, where he serves as the Director of Chaplaincy Services at Jewish Family and Child Services. As mandated by the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto, he is responsible for overseeing the spiritual and religious care received by Jewish patients in 41 hospital s, Jewish residents in 5 5 long-term care facilitie s as well as Jewish inmates in 3 7 Ontario correctional institutions. 

Rabbi Weiss is the chaplain of the Jewish Hospice Program and provides spiritual care and counselling to the terminally ill in the Jewish community. 

Rabbi Weiss represents the Jewish community on the Ontario Multi - faith Council for Spiritual and Religious Care , on which he s erved for many years as a member of its Executive Board .  H e is the only rabbi in Toronto to carry a badge - serv ing as the Jewish chaplain for the Toronto Police Service ; as well he is an advisor to the York Region Polic e Service and works with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police .