Education
Harvard University; Yale University.
Harvard University; Yale University.
In May 2013, Rabbi Winer was appointed the Director of the Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Studies of Saint Thomas University in Miami, Florida, the diocesan university of the Archdiocese of Miami. He is also Adjunct Professor of Religion at Saint Thomas. Rabbi Winer has been the President of FAITH: the Foundation to Advance Interfaith Trust and Harmony, a United States public charity, since he founded it in 1995.
He founded a sibling British charity with the same name, registered with the United Kingdom Charity Commission, in 2010.
Rabbi Winer was born in Logan, Utah December 16, 1942 and raised in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude in 1964 and earned a Doctor of Philosophy with highest distinction in 1977 at Yale University in Sociology, Comparative Religion, Contemporary Jewry and Race and Ethnic Relations.
He was ordained as a rabbi in 1970 at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City. Rabbi Winer served as a congregational rabbi for over 30 years in the United States, serving Temple Emanuel in Orange, Connecticut.
Temple Beth David in Commack, New New York
And the Jewish Community Center / Congregation Kol Ami in White Plains, New New York Rabbi Winer has been Rabbi Emeritus of Kol Ami since 1998. Prior to becoming senior rabbi at West London Synagogue in 1998, he was the president of the National Council of Synagogues (United States of America).
He has been involved in several international events, including resolving the issues that led to the Treaty between Israel and the Vatican.
He was also a key negotiator for the release of Ethiopian Jews and the resolution to the dispute over the Carmelite convent at Auschwitz. He was designated twice as Chaplain to the Lord Mayor of Westminster, in 2000–2001 for Councillor Michael Brahams, and in 2008–2009 for Councillor Louise Hyams.
Rabbi Winer married Suellen Mark Bleifer on July 3, 1978. Suellen is a Certified Public Accountant (Certified Public Accountants).