Dr Sandra Jacobs
Dr Jacobs currently teaches Between The Testaments: An Introduction to Second Temple Jewish Literature at the college, and has previously taught Biblical and Targumic Aramaic Language and Grammar. Her doctoral thesis appeared as The Body as Property: Physical Disfigurement in Biblical Law (Library of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Series 582; London and New York: T & T Clarke/Bloomsbury Academic, […]
Rabbi Colin Eimer
Academic background:
1963-1966 London University, London School of Economics, B.Sc (Econ)
1966-1971 Leo Baeck College – Rabbinic ordination
2005-2007 Sussex University – MA (European Jewish History, Thought and Culture)
Professional Background:
1971-1974 Rabbi, Union Libérale Israélite Universelle, Paris
1974-1977 Rabbi, Bushey & Radlett Reform Synagogue
1977-2015 Rabbi, Sha’arei Tsedek North London Reform Synagogue
2015- […]
Dr Chani Smith
DR CHANI Haran SMITH
SENIOR LECTURER
Chani (Haran) Smith (PhD) studied musicology and Kabbalah at the Hebrew University. She later received an MA from Leo Baeck College and a PhD from UCL in Jewish Studies and holds professional qualification from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she studied flute and composition. She teaches reading and […]
Dr Laliv Clenman
Dr Laliv Clenman is Senior Lecturer in Rabbinic Literature. A specialist in Rabbinics and Hebrew and Aramaic language and literature, she is particularly interested in the multiplicity, diversity and development of rabbinic law and in the complex relationship between halakhah and aggadah. Her research focuses on the nature of talmudic and midrashic discourse, as well […]
Dr Benjamin Williams
Dr Benjamin Williams teaches Hebrew Bible and Rabbinics at Leo Baeck College and the University of Oxford. Within the field of the history of Rabbinic Judaism and its classical texts, his research focuses on the development of rabbinic Bible interpretation, including the dating of late antique exegetical traditions; the transmission of midrash in manuscript and […]