Jessica Kate Meyer

Jessica Kate Meyer is an American former actress and cleric who left acting to become a rabbi. She is known for playing Halina Szpilman in Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning film The Pianist (2002).

Education and acting years

His family moved to Connecticut from Waban, Massachusetts, when he was four or five years old. As a child, he took violin lessons at the New England Conservatory. He studied Middle Eastern studies at Wellesley College and spent a year in Israel; Then he studied drama in London.

In The Pianist, she played Halina, the sister of the protagonist Władysław Szpilman. After this film, she worked in television and cinema projects in Los Angeles: She played Dora Carrington in the 2003 film Al sur de Granada, in the TV series Scrubs in 2004, and in the HBO film Mrs. Appeared on Harris. According to his own account, the shooting of The Pianist was the beginning of the process that took him away from cinema and back to the Jewish tradition.

Rabbinate

He attended the cantor and then rabbi program at Hebrew College in Boston and was ordained as a rabbi in 2014. He served as rabbi and cantor at the Romemu congregation in New York, then at The Kitchen congregation in San Francisco; He also served at the Chizuk Amuno congregation in Baltimore. He later moved into the role of prayer leader and artist-in-residence faculty at Hebrew College. He is known for his works that combine music, ritual and storytelling.