Community Involvement
He has served as a member of the UCLA School of Law Alumni Association Board of Directors, the Cesar Chavez Foundation, and the Pacific Council on International Policy. He serves as a fellow for the Truman National Security Project. While serving as a Councilmember, Weiss was notified that he was a bone marrow match for a leukemia patient he did not know. Weiss donated bone marrow to the patient and later received the Legislative Award from the National Marrow Donor Program for expanding city medical leave for bone marrow donors. He is also a contributing editor to the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles.
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