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Raising the voice of Reform Judaism

A working mother and friend of Israel, Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner talks about reaching out to people on the margins of society in her role as senior rabbi to Reform Judaism

August 22, 2014 09:59
Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner

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Sandy Rashty,

Sandy Rashty

3 min read

Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner is one of the most media-savvy rabbis in the UK.

A radio panellist and self-described “broadcaster”, she regularly tweets on issues of public interest and is rarely without her iPad and mobile phone.

As the senior rabbi to the Movement for Reform Judaism, which is made up of 40 communities and two affiliate synagogues, she sees it as her job.

We met at the Sternberg Centre a couple of days after she returned from Lithuania, where she was filming a Holocaust Memorial Day documentary with the BBC on her family’s roots in Plunge.