Laura Janner-Klausner

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Rabbi Laura Naomi Janner-Klausner (Hebrew: לוֹרָה ג׳אָנֶר-קלְוֹזנֶר) (born August 1, 1963 in London ) is Chief Rabbi of the Movement for Reform Judaism in the United Kingdom . She is a daughter of the politician Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone , granddaughter of Barnett Janner, Baron Janner and great-niece Sir Israel Brodies , the former Orthodox , Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom.

She was temporarily on BBC Radio 4 spokeswoman for the consignment Thought for the Day and televised on BBC One in the series The Big Questions to be seen.

life and career

Laura Janner-Klausner grew up in London. As a teenager, she switched from an Orthodox synagogue to a synagogue of progressive Judaism. She studied theology at the University of Cambridge and then lived in Jerusalem for 15 years. She holds a diploma from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MA from Brandeis University , Massachusetts , USA. In 1999 she returned to London to study for the rabbinate at Leo Baeck College . She was ordained in 2004 . Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner worked at the North Western Reform Synagogue from 2003 to November 2011, when she became Chief Rabbi of the Movement for Reform Judaism .

In July 2020, she announced her resignation as Chief Rabbi of Reformed Judaism on October 1, 2020. She will begin the next academic year at Durham University with a doctorate in "digital theology".

Private life

She has three children with her husband David. David Janner-Klausner is program and planning director of the United Jewish Israel Appeal (UJIA) and a brother of the Israeli writer Amos Oz (originally Amos Klausner ), who died in 2018 .

Her siblings are Marion Janner OBE , a mental health activist, and Daniel Janner QC , a lawyer

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Rocker, Simon: Laura Janner-Klausner: Why I'm not the Reform rival to the Chief Rabbi . In: The Jewish Chronicle , July 28, 2011. Retrieved November 1, 2012. 
  2. ^ A b c Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner in the Times . Movement for Reform Judaism. December 5, 2011. Archived from the original on March 10, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 17, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / news.reformjudaism.org.uk
  3. ↑ Laura Janner-Klausner . Internet Movie Database . Retrieved November 1, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b Rocker, Simon: Meet the media-savvy voice of Reform Judaism . In: The Jewish Chronicle , July 21, 2011. Retrieved November 2, 2012. 
  5. ^ A b c d Wachmann, Doreen: Reform greeting for the new Chief Rabbi . In: Jewish Telegraph , 2012. Retrieved April 30, 2013. 
  6. ^ A b About Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner . Rabbis for Human Rights . Retrieved November 1, 2012.
  7. ^ Resignation of the rabbi , in: tachles. The Jewish weekly magazine , Zurich, July 17, 2020, page 9
  8. ↑ Harpin, Emma: Emma Harpin: Working Mothers - in pictures . In: The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved January 6, 2013. 
  9. ^ Cast List . In: Can Two Walk Together? . New Israel Fund . Archived from the original on May 17, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 2, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.newisraelfund.org.uk
personal data
SURNAME Janner-Klausner, Laura
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Janner-Klausner, Laura Naomi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Rabbi, Chief Rabbi of the Movement for Reform Judaism in the United Kingdom
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH London