Rabbi Dr. Rani Jaeger

Biography

Rani is a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, where he leads the Ritual Center. Previously, he served as head of the Tanakh Initiative for Bible teachers in public high schools.

Rani received his doctorate from Bar-Ilan University, on Jewish-Israeli culture as perceived by the poet Avraham Shlonsky. He was a participant in the first cohort of the Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis and received rabbinical ordination from the Shalom Hartman Institute and HaMidrasha at Oranim in September 2016.

Rani is one of the founders of Beit Tefilah Israeli, a secular synagogue in the heart of Tel Aviv. He spent a year at Paideia, the European Institute of Jewish Studies in Stockholm, where he is now the educational director.

Rani grew up in Tel Aviv, and currently lives in Jerusalem with his wife, Inbal, and their four children.