Jessica Kate Meyer is an American retired actress, who has appeared in The Pianist, and was later ordained as a rabbi.
She commuted to take violin lessons at the New England Conservatory of Music and played with the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra,[4] Her early experiences at the synagogue her family attended in West Hartford began the steps that eventually led to her becoming a rabbi.
After reading the book on which the film was based, she submitted a photograph of herself to the producer after talking to him by telephone.
[4] She worked in Los Angeles with Ikar, a synagogue that featured programs to help disaffected Jews, and she spent a year on a fellowship studying Jewish text and leadership.
[4] She has been rabbi-hazzan of The Kitchen in San Francisco, and as of February 2025 she was rabbi of Chizuk Amuno Congregation in Baltimore, Maryland.