Rabbi Dr Frank Dabba Smith
Frank Dabba Smith was born in California in 1955 and gained his first BA degree studying Linguistic Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. He then studied photography at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco before qualifying as a secondary school teacher at San Diego State University. For many years, he worked […]
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 Keith Kahn-Harris
Dr Keith Kahn-Harris is the Course Team for the MA programme and teaches the courses Understanding Jewish Communities, Talking About Israel as well as courses on dissertation preparation. As a sociologist whose research interests include the contemporary British Jewish community, he has conducted research for several Jewish communal organisations and he runs the European Jewish […]
Dr Nadia Vidro
Dr. Vidro currently teaches Worlds of Medieval Judaism at the college. Her primary research interests are intellectual and social history of medieval Jews in Muslim lands, Hebrew manuscripts and Qaraism. She has worked on the history of medieval grammatical traditions, including Qaraite approaches to Biblical Hebrew verbal morphology and the transmission of grammatical knowledge between the […]