Jennifer Krause is the author of The Answer: Making Sense of Life, One Question at a Time (Perigee). Her writing and commentary also have been featured in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, and O, The Oprah Magazine.
Jennifer currently serves as an Adjunct Professor and Director of Special Initiatives in the Michael and Irene Ross Program in Jewish Studies at the City College of New York and as the High Holidays rabbi at Manhattan 's 92nd Street Y, where she also makes frequent appearances as a speaker and interviewer. Jennifer was recently named to the Forward's 2010 inaugural Sisterhood 50 list as one of America's most influential women rabbis.
Jennifer has spent more than a decade teaching and lecturing in New York City and throughout North America , working as a dynamic writer, speaker, and media commentator, creating unique points of connection between a diverse array of timeless and timely sources of wisdom and the spiritual, cultural, and social issues in peoples' hearts and on their minds today. No matter what the topic, she is a sought-after voice for audiences of all cultures, backgrounds, and faiths.
Born and raised in Tucson , AZ , Jennifer received her BA with Honors from Washington University in St. Louis , Missouri in both English Literature and in Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Studies, and an MA in Hebrew Literature and Rabbinic Ordination from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem and New York . Jennifer makes her home in Manhattan .
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