Ready to embrace a life of true fulfillment?
Speaker, author, and coach Beatrice Weber teaches the Fearless & Fulfilled Framework so women like you can unleash your inner Warrior Woman to confidently lead a life you love.
- Motivational Keynotes
- Fearless Stories
- My Journey out of the Hasidic Community
Ready to embrace a life of true fulfillment?
Speaker, author, and coach Beatrice Weber teaches the Fearless & Fulfilled Framework so women like you can unleash your inner Warrior Woman to confidently lead a life you love.
- Motivational Keynotes
- Fearless Stories
- Empowerment Coaching
AS SEEN IN
EVENTS
Mid-Island Y JCC Jewish Learning Series
Speaker
October 29, 2024
Our Children, Our Responsibility: The Jewish Community’s Role in Hasidic Education presented by Beatrice Weber Yaffed Senior Advisor
Ohr Hadash Sisterhood Sukkot Gathering Event
Speaker
October 21, 2024
In this talk, Beatrice Weber discusses her journey from silenced Chasidic Woman to an outspoken activist. She discusses her personal experiences growing up in the Chasidic community, getting married at 18, raising children, the process of leaving her marriage, and eventually the community and its impact on her and her children. She also covers some of the most serious issues facing the Chasidic community across the globe, including education and how it impacts us all.
After Orthodoxy: Cultural Creativity and the Break with Tradition
YIVO Institute
Speaker
September 15, 2024
Beatrice Weber (YAFFED) “Strategies for Impacting Systemic Change in the Orthodox Community”
There is a widespread fascination with stories about leaving the Orthodox Jewish community. But what happens after this often-traumatic break? Join YIVO for the first conference and festival organized by and featuring formerly Orthodox Jewish scholars, activists, performers, and artists, as we explore the cultural achievements that emerged from this break with tradition.
Through performances, presentations, and panel discussions, we will discuss the challenges and opportunities of leading a meaningful life “after Orthodoxy.” What do formerly Orthodox Jews have to offer the communities they joined, the communities they left behind, and the larger world? What resources do artists and performers draw from their Orthodox upbringings? How have ex-Hasidic activists changed the communities in which they were raised? And how do these challenges and opportunities resonate among those who left other insular religious groups?
Panel discussions will include ex-Orthodox activism with Naftali Moster, Elad Nehorai, Beatrice Weber, Chani Getter, and Lani Santo; religion after Orthodoxy with Yehuda Jacobowitz, Amichai Lau-Lavie, Shaul Magid, and Jericho Vincent; scholarship and the break with tradition with Yair Hass, Roni Masel, Miriam Moster, Zalman Newfield, Naomi Seidman, and Jessica Lang; and leaving other insular religious communities with Hannah Abbasi, Jeremy Jenkins, Amy Jemmett, and Jessica Pratezina.
The conference will also include a music, film, and performance festival, featuring Luzer Twersky as MC; Castles in the Air, a new film by Pearl Gluck; the visual art of Sara Erenthal and Malky Goldman; and performances by Basya Schechter, Riki Rose, Rayne Lunger, Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, Melissa Weisz, and Michael Wex.
Marriage, Orthodoxy and a Vision of Empowerment
Columbia University
Speaker
October 16, 2023
Columbia University’s Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life
The United States is not on track to keep its promise under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to end forced marriage – a harmful practice that is recognized as a form of modern slavery – by the year 2030. Which is why earlier this year, Unchained at Last partnered with Columbia University researchers to luanch MOVE, a three year, surviver-co-led, first of its kind project to study and combat forced marriage, forced marital sex and forced parenthood in the United States. And that is why we met today with experts, activists, survivors and other allies to share our preliminary study findings from our case study of the New York City Orthodox Jewish community.
Beatrice Weber serves on the action committee and brings with her a wealth of experience both as a survivor of a forced marriage and in her role as the executive director of YAFFED, which looks to make systemic changes to the education system in the Jewish Hasidic community in New York
Unorthodox Education
Carole Zabar Center for Film
Panelist
September 26, 2023
Marlene Myerson Jewish Community Center (JCC)
At the Carole Zabar Center for Film, we present previews and special engagements of films on topics that are relevant and important to our community. These include fiction and documentary movies on subjects such as social justice, history, current and political happenings and other matters of interest to Jewish and NYC viewers. Our weekly screenings include our year-round Cinematters series, as well as features presented by the Israel Film Center, ReelAbilities, and other Israel Film Festival.
The Film
Unorthodox Education is a 60-minute documentary that exposes a shocking truth — that tens of thousands of Jewish schoolchildren graduate from ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn “yeshiva” high schools without knowing who George Washington was or that the Earth moves around the Sun.
We’ll hear graduates of these schools explain how they were denied the legally-mandated education they need to become independent adults. Some were never taught how to speak English. Today, many boys get at most an hour or two of secular education at the end of a long day of studying religious topics.
We’ll meet Naftuli Moster, a graduate of a Hasidic yeshiva, who’s leading the fight to force educational authorities to obey the law. We’ll meet Beatrice Weber, a mother of 10, the Rosa Parks of the movement, who sued the city to force her son’s school to meet state standards. And we’ll see Mayor Bill de Blasio and other education officials claim year after year that they’re trying to address the problem — even after the city investigators concluded that the Mayor delayed efforts for years in return for political favors from the ultra-Orthodox community.
City and State Education Summit
The State of New York City Schools
Speaker
August 17, 2023
Museum of Jewish Heritage
City and State’s Education in New York summit offered industry executives, public sector leaders and academics the opportunity to share ideas and debate over critical issues such as school choice, closing the achievement gap, and special education. The full day event brought together the most influential leaders and thinkers in New York’s education fields
A Community of Unity
Toastmasters District 119 Spring Conference Workshop Presenter
Saturday, April 22, 2023 2:30 pm
Warrior Unleashed
This workshop will provide hands on use of my simple, high-impact framework for living Fearless &
Fulfilled by tapping into your willpower, trusting your inner wisdom, and recognizing
your true worthiness.
The audience will leave with:
● A practical framework to make the powerful shift from paralysis and self-doubt
to empowered action
● An immediate, 3-step plan to increase confidence, self-esteem, and fulfillment
in all areas of life and career
● The encouragement, energy, and inspiration to embrace a new self identify as
a fearless Warrior capable of speaking out and stepping up in the face
of life’s challenges
L.A.C.E Toastmasters Open House
Saturday, April 22, 2023
L.A.C.E. (Ladies Advancing Communication Excellence) Toastmasters Club is having its first in-person Open House at the Salvation Army Bay Ridge Corps on Saturday April 22, 2023 at 12 Noon.
YOU ARE INVITED!
Come to our Open House and observe a Toastmasters meeting and learn how our Club can help you develop your communication skills and leadership skills with Guest Speaker Beatrice Weber
Do you want to……
– Improve your communications skills
– Network with like-minded women
– Receive thorough and honest feedback
Jewish Education Justice: Why All New Yorkers Should Care
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
In New York, upwards of 50,000 Haredi children are currently facing educational neglect at the hands of their community leaders, and many parents who leave the community are deprived of their rights to relationships with their children.
Join us for a timely conversation about the parameters of education and family justice in the Haredi world and how these intersect, as we examine our communal obligation to our neighbors and fellow Jewish people.
Celebrate Women’s History Month – We Have a Voice
Saturday, March 18, 2023
Warrior Woman Unleashed
This keynote illustrates my simple, high-impact framework for living Fearless &
Fulfilled by tapping into your willpower, trusting your inner wisdom, and recognizing
your true worthiness.
The audience will leave with:
● A practical framework to make the powerful shift from paralysis and self-doubt
to empowered action
● An immediate, 3-step plan to increase confidence, self-esteem, and fulfillment
in all areas of life and career
● The encouragement, energy, and inspiration to embrace a new self identify as
a fearless Warrior Woman capable of speaking out and stepping up in the face
of life’s challenges
Kol Ami Synaplex Kabbalat Shabbat Service, Dinner and Program
Friday, March 17, 2023 24 Adar 5783
The Journey from Chasidic Mom to Yeshiva Advocate: A Personal Story
TEDxFarmingdale
October 8, 2022
What is legacy and does it have any place in the creation of ideas? Legacy is defined as something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past, but does legacy mean more to us in terms of the long-term impact of ideas? The 4th annual TEDxFarmingdale event will showcase the concept of legacy and its meaning in the grand scheme of creating ideas and innovating.
Beatrice Weber is an Interspiritual Minister, author, speaker, and coach. She guides women whose voices have been silenced to connect with their own inner worthiness and lead joyful lives through her Fearless & Fulfilled Framework.
Beatrice was born and raised in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community, married off to a Rabbi at the age of 18, and never had the opportunity to graduate high school. After 22 years and 10 children, she left the marriage with her four youngest children, despite severe opposition from her family and community.
Now, Beactice shares her story to empower women from all backgrounds to embrace their inner worthiness and step confidently into lives they love.