Lawrence W. Raphael

LAWRENCE W. RAPHAEL was a Reform rabbi, editor, and scholar who edited two anthologies of Jewish mystery fiction: Criminal Kabbalah and Mystery Midrash.

Raphael was ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati in 1974 and earned a Ph.D. in higher education and leadership from New York University in 1990. He served as the ninth Senior Rabbi of Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco from 2003 to 2016, and previously as the first Director of the Department of Adult Jewish Growth at the Union of American Hebrew Congregations from 1996 to 2003. He also wrote articles on Jewish identity in detective fiction.

Raphael died on March 17, 2019, in San Francisco.

Lawrence W. Raphael’s books are published by Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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