Deborah Kahn-Harris
Rabbi Professor [1] 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.[2] Kahn-Harris, a graduate of the college, is one of the first woman rabbis to lead a mainstream rabbinic seminary.[3][4]
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Kahn-Harris was brought up in Houston, Texas, United States.[5] She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts[5] and a doctorate in biblical studies from the University of Sheffield.
Career
[edit | edit source]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.[6]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]She has both American and British citizenship[7] and is married to the writer, lecturer, and music critic Keith Kahn-Harris, with whom she has two children.[6]
Publications
[edit | edit source]- "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
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External links
[edit | edit source]- 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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- Living people
- 21st-century American women
- 21st-century English rabbis
- Alumni of Leo Baeck College
- Alumni of the University of Sheffield
- British Reform rabbis
- Educators from Texas
- American women educators
- Mount Holyoke College alumni
- People associated with Leo Baeck College
- People from Houston
- Reform women rabbis