Dr. Tanya White is a scholar of Jewish philosophy and contemporary Jewish thought at Bar-Ilan University, and a faculty member of the Jonathan Sacks Institute, where she lectures in Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ political philosophy and modern Jewish thought. She completed her doctorate at Bar-Ilan University, with a dissertation examining the post-Holocaust theology of Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg and its place within modern Jewish philosophical discourse.
Her research engages central figures in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Jewish thought, including Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and Rabbi Irving Greenberg, with particular attention to covenant, moral responsibility, historical rupture, and the relationship between theology, politics, and public moral reasoning. She has published academic articles and book chapters in these fields, contributing to ongoing scholarly conversations in modern Jewish philosophy and theology. She is the recipient of various scholarships and grants, including the Orbach Foundation Scholarship and the Moses S. Schupf Fellowship Grant.
Dr. White’s research has been presented at numerous international conferences and invited academic forums. Most recently, she presented a paper on Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ theodicy at the Nineteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies.
Alongside her academic scholarship, Dr. White is a prominent public intellectual and a widely recognised voice beyond the academy. She is Senior Lecturer at the Matan Institute for Torah Learning and teaches across a range of adult education and informal learning frameworks in Israel and internationally. Through sustained writing, teaching, and public engagement, she brings rigorous Jewish philosophical thought into conversation with contemporary moral, political, and cultural challenges. She regularly publishes essays and commentary in newspapers and public intellectual platforms, and is the founder and host of Books and Beyond: The Rabbi Sacks Podcast, the official podcast of the Rabbi Sacks Legacy Trust.
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