Rabbi Professor [1] Deborah Kahn-Harris is the Principal of Leo Baeck College, a rabbinical seminary and centre for the training of teachers in Jewish education, based at the Sternberg Centre, Finchley, in the London Borough of Barnet.
[2] Kahn-Harris, a graduate of the college, is one of the first woman rabbis to lead a mainstream rabbinic seminary.
[3][4] Kahn-Harris was brought up in Houston, Texas, United States.
Kahn-Harris was one of the members of the rabbinic staff at Sha'arei Tsedek North London Reform Synagogue and a lecturer at Leo Baeck College before her appointment as the college's principal.
[6] She has both American and British citizenship[7] and is married to the writer, lecturer, and music critic Keith Kahn-Harris, with whom she has two children.