 Weiss opened Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (a rabbinical school) in 1999; its graduates were not accepted for membership by the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America (RCA).In 2007, Weiss co-founded the International Rabbinic Fellowship for Open Orthodox rabbis, and in 2015 he and Asher Lopatin, YCT's president, resigned from the RCA.The movement's ordination of women is a source of friction.