Beatrice Weber

Author Bio

Beatrice is a writer, advocate and speaker. She has shared her story most recently in an article in the Huffington Post, as well as on the TEDx stage, at MOTH gatherings, and numerous publications. She has also spoken at venues across the world and featured in local, national, and international outlets such: The New York Times, the Forward, NBC NY, 1010 WINS, HERE and NOW, an NPR podcast, BBC, New York Post, NY1, Jerusalem Post, Citylimits, i24 Israel TV and others.

October 2022, the New York Times featured the story of her win against the yeshiva on the front page, with a full-size photo of Beatrice accompanying the breaking news. Many other publications featured her story as well. In both November and December of 2022, Beatrice was profiled on the front page of the New York Times, revealing her multi-year fight to obtain an education for her son, as well as her experiences in leaving the Hasidic community. Beatrice has also been invited to write for various online outlets such as the Forward, Crystal Morrisette’s Simply Woman, Jewish Women of Words, Australia, and Jennifer Pastiloff’s The Manifest-Station.

Beatrice is the Executive Director of YAFFED, an organization that advocates for education for Hasidic children in NYS. She is also an author, speaker, mom, and ordained Interfaith minister.