Rabbi Deborah Silver 

Rabbi Deborah Silver holds a Master’s degree in Hebrew Studies from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, England, and a further MA in Theory and Practice of Literary Translation from the University of Essex, England.  On leaving university she worked in the fields of theater and publishing, prior to co-authoring The Young Person’s Guide to Saving the Planet for Virago Press in 1990 and acting as Senior English Editor of the Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary of Current Usage. 

She subsequently qualified as an attorney, working for Mishcon de Reya, London for four years before leaving to take a post at BPP Law School, where she was an Associate Professor, head of legal research and deputy head of teacher training.  In her spare time she discovered Limmud, the Jewish learning conference that has since gone international.

Eventually the call of the rabbinate proved irresistible, and she packed up her books and crossed the ocean to study at the Ziegler School of the American Jewish University.  While there, she was the co-editor, with Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, of three volumes of the Ziegler Adult Learning Walking With… series and taught Ethics at the Conejo Valley Florence Melton Adult Mini-School. 

Rabbi Silver’s interests include yoga, dance, music and dogs (in particular her Shih Tzu, Zalman).  She feels privileged to be part of the team at Adat Ari El, and hopes that her rabbinate will embody the deep love of Jewish learning – in all its many and varied forms - which has characterized her journey to date.

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