Rabbi Weissberg has served as spiritual leader of Temple Beth-El of Chicago since 1954. Under his leadership Temple Beth-El has grown from approximately 100 families to its present 700 families, with a full program of religious classes and worship in Chicago and the North Shore Suburbs. Prior to his election at Temple Beth-El, he served as Assistant Rabbi and Educational Director of Temple Isaiah Israel of Chicago. Rabbi Weissberg studied at the Hebrew University on a scholarship from the Cleveland Zionist Federation. He completed his studies for the Master's Degree in Education at the University of Cincinnati in 1951, where he was elected to membership in Phi Delta Kappa, the national honorary education fraternity. Rabbi Weissberg has studied at the American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry in New York, and has earned certificates in Psychotherapy and Counseling from the Chicago Medical School - University of Health Sciences, and the Alfred Adler Institute of Chicago.

Rabbi Weissberg is a member of the Chicago Board of Rabbis, and the Central Conference of American Rabbis where he served on its Commission on Marriage and Family Life. He holds memberships in Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, and the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. He is founder and president of the Rabbinic Counseling Service of Chicago. He is founder of and served as director of the Young Leadership Division of Bonds for Israel. He is founder and former chairman of the Rabbinic Fellowship of West Rogers Park as well as the Council of Ministers and Rabbis of Hyde Park. He is founder and director of To Protect Our Heritage, a political action committee. Rabbi Weissberg is former director of the North Side Jewish Community High School and a special lecturer in Bible and Jewish literature. He has served as an officer of the Chicago Board of Rabbis and many other community organizations.

Rabbi Weissberg served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He is married to the former Tamar Libovsky of Tel Aviv and has three children, Amyra, Ariel and Alona.  He is listed in Who's Who in the Midwest, Who's Who in American Jewry, and Who's Who in World Jewry.  He has contributed articles and essays to the numerous periodicals, and is the author of Jewish Life in the 17th Century Turkey; Jerusalem in the End of Days; and The Psalms and Psychotherapy. Tolearn more about Rabbi Weissberg's his personal political interests (and not representative of TBE) you're welcome to visit his personal website.