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Bari Weiss (born March 25, 1984 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American opinion writer and editor. In 2017, Weiss joined The New York Times as a staff editor in the opinion section.
Bari Weiss was born in Pittsburgh, to Lou and Amy Weiss. She grew up in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood, and graduated from Pittsburgh's Community Day School and Shady Side Academy. She attended The Tree of Life Synagogue and had her Bat Mitzvah there.
Weiss is a 2007 graduate of Columbia University. Weiss was a Wall Street Journal Bartley Fellow in 2007. Weiss was a Dorot Fellow from 2007 to 2008 in Jerusalem.
As a student at Columbia, W
Bari Weiss (born March 25, 1984 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American opinion writer and editor. In 2017, Weiss joined The New York Times as a staff editor in the opinion section.
Bari Weiss was born in Pittsburgh, to Lou and Amy Weiss. She grew up in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood, and graduated from Pittsburgh's Community Day School and Shady Side Academy. She attended The Tree of Life Synagogue and had her Bat Mitzvah there.
Weiss is a 2007 graduate of Columbia University. Weiss was a Wall Street Journal Bartley Fellow in 2007. Weiss was a Dorot Fellow from 2007 to 2008 in Jerusalem.
As a student at Columbia, Weiss founded the Columbia Coalition for Sudan in response to the situation in Darfur. She was also a co-founder of Columbians for Academic Freedom. The group said that professors were intimidating students who expressed ideas in classroom discussions that the professors disagreed with. Weiss said that she felt intimidated in a class by Joseph Massad.
Weiss was news and politics editor at Tablet from 2011 to 2013. She was associate book review editor at The Wall Street Journal from 2013 until April 2017, when she moved to The New York Times as an editor in the opinion section. In 2018 she generated controversy related to a written opinion piece about the #MeToo Movement, as well as with a tweet regarding Mirai Nagasu. In 2018, Weiss was a guest panelist on Real Time with Bill Maher on three episodes during which she discussed social justice issues. She made a fourth appearance that season, as a solo guest, to discuss the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. Weiss grew up in that synagogue and knew some of the victims.
She is conservative. According to Washington Post reporter Avi Selk, Weiss "portrays herself as a liberal uncomfortable with the excesses of left-wing culture." Weiss describes herself as a left-leaning centrist.
Weiss has been criticized for her views on Israel, political correctness, and Islam. A self-described "unhinged Zionist," Weiss was criticized by Glenn Greenwald for her views on Israel. In 2018, she said she believed the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but that they should not disqualify him from serving on the Supreme Court, because he was 17 when he allegedly committed the assault.
Personal life
Weiss was married to Jason Kass, the founder of Toilets for People a company designing and manufacturing waterless self-Contained composting toilets.
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