• Source: Deborah Kahn-Harris

      • 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. Kahn-Harris, a graduate of the college, is one of the first woman rabbis to lead a mainstream rabbinic seminary.


      Early life and education


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


      Career


      Kahn-Harris was one of the members of the rabbinic staff at Sha'arei Tsedek North London Reform Synagogue and a lecturer at Leo Baeck College before her appointment as the college's principal.


      Personal life


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


      Publications


      "Midrash for the Masses: The Uses (and Abuses) of the Term ‘Midrash’ in Contemporary Feminist Discourse" in Feminist Theology, May 2013, vol. 21 no. 3, pp. 295-308
      "Weaning: Personal and Biblical Reflections" in Grushcow, Lisa J (ed): The Sacred Encounter: Jewish Perspectives on Sexuality, Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2014
      Polyamory and Reading the Book of Ruth, Lexington Books 2023


      References




      External links


      Leo Baeck College profile: Deborah Kahn-Harris Archived 3 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine
      Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies: Deborah Kahn-Harris Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
      Open University video interview: Rabbi Dr Deborah Kahn-Harris, 2012
      Dresden lecture on Theodicy by Rabbi Deborah Kahn-Harris, Principal Leo Baeck College, London, European Union for Progressive Judaism (EUPJ) Biennial, 27 May 2014

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