Education
Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, 2010
M.A. in Literary Translation, University of Essex, England
B.A. Hons. in Hebrew Studies, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, England
Bio
Rabbi Deborah Silver serves IKAR, Los Angeles as an Associate Rabbi and teaches at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. She was ordained in 2010 by the Ziegler School, after which she spent six years as assistant rabbi at Adat Ari El, Valley Village, Los Angeles and a further six as the rabbi of Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation, New Orleans. After stints in theater, publishing and editing (including The Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary of Current Usage) she qualified as an attorney. She worked in private practice at Mishcon de Reya, London and then as a law professor for BPP Law School before crossing the ocean to fulfill her long-held dream of becoming a rabbi. As well as a Master’s in Rabbinic Studies, Rabbi Silver holds an MA 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. She has completed CLAL’s Clergy Leadership Incubator and the Institute of Jewish Spirituality’s clergy training, and for five years sat on the Committee of Jewish Law and Standards for the Conservative Movement, when she co-authored teshuvot on calling non-binary individuals to the Torah and reclaiming a woman’s dignity in divorce proceedings.