One of the community’s top women educators is to leave the London School of Jewish Studies next month to take up a Oxford post.
Dr Tamra Wright, director of academic studies and educator development, will become curriculum development adviser at Faith in Leadership, based at St Benet’s Hall.
Dr Wright, a specialist in modern Jewish philosophy who had been with LSJS for 23 years, led the Susi Bradfield Educational Leadership Programme for women educators.
Krish Raval, director of Faith in Leadership, said, “We are thrilled and honoured to engage Dr Wright’s vast creativity, intellectuall rigour and considerable experience in curriculum design to strrenth our offerings as we move towards an online eduational platform.”
Rabbi Lord Sacks, an honorary president of LSJS, said Dr Wright had played “a key part in the growth of adult education in Anglo Jewry… She has made enormous impact in many areas, especially in promoting the development of women’s leadership and academic learning in the community at a graduate level.”
Dani Jaff-Klein, an LSJS trustee and Bradfield graduate, said, “There is no doubt that the immense network and high standard of women's scholarship and engagement in the UK community has been as a direct result of Tamra's excellent guidance and facilitation of this unique programme."
Dr Wright will retain her links with LSJS as a senior research fellow.
St Benet’s Hall, which was founded in the late 19th century for monks studying at Oxford, now teaches students of all faiths.
