Rabba Rori Picker Neiss is Senior Vice President and Rabbi in Residence at the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA). She previously served as Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis and, before that, on the clergy team at Bais Abraham Congregation, a Modern Orthodox synagogue in St. Louis.

Rori is one of the first graduates of Yeshivat Maharat, a David Hartman Center fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, a CLAL Rabbis Without Borders fellow, and co-editor of “InterActive Faith: The Essential Interreligious Community-Building Handbook.” She is a member of the faculty at the Spertus Institute and serves on the boards of HIAS and the Parliament of the World’s Religions.

Rori is married to Russel Neiss, a software engineer, and they have three children.