Deborah Kahn-Harris

Rabbi Dr Deborah Kahn-Harris is the Principal of Leo Baeck College, a rabbinical seminary and centre for the training of teachers in Jewish education, based at the Sternberg Centre, Finchley, in the London Borough of Barnet. She was appointed to the post in September 2011.[1] Kahn-Harris, a graduate of the college, is one of the first woman rabbis to lead a mainstream rabbinic seminary.[2][3]

Early life and education

Kahn-Harris was brought up in Houston, Texas.[4] She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts[4] and a doctorate in biblical studies from the University of Sheffield.[5]

Personal life

She has both American and British citizenship[6] and is married to the writer, lecturer, and music critic Keith Kahn-Harris, with whom she has two children.[7]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "History". Leo Baeck College. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Induction of New Principal of Leo Baeck College". Movement for Reform Judaism. 1 March 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  3. ↑ Simon Rocker (1 April 2011). "Leo Baeck picks its first woman head". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  4. 1 2 "Rabbi Dr Deborah Kahn-Harris". Leo Baeck College. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  5. ↑ "Deborah Kahn-Harris". Presenters. Limmud. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "Kabbalat Shabbat service: Shabbat Eve March 16, 2012". Drasha Rabbi Dr. Deborah Kahn-Harris. European Union for Progressive Judaism. 16 March 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  7. ↑ "Rabbi Dr Deborah Kahn-Harris". Who's Who. Liberal Judaism (United Kingdom). Retrieved 12 June 2016.

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