Our Rabbi

Rabbi Carmit Harari began her position as TBO’s full-time rabbi and spiritual leader in 2008.

Rabbi Harari was born in Haifa, Israel and grew up in small Reform congregations in Israel and the United States.

As a youth, Rabbi Harari was an active participant at URJ camp Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, where she later served as a counselor and resident director. While in high school, she was also involved in NFTY, the North American Federation of Temple Youth, serving as Religious and Cultural Vice-President of her region.

She was ordained at the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, in 2008; she served student congregations in West Virginia, Indiana, and Tennessee.  Rabbi Harari also completed a rabbinic thesis: “Mishkan T’filah: A History and Cultural Analysis of the Genesis of the Reform Movement’s New Prayer Book.”

Rabbi Harari is a member of the Board of Directors of the Edmonton Interfaith Centre for Education and Action and a  representative, on behalf of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, to the Union for Reform Judaism Joint Commission on Worship, Liturgical Music and Religious Living. She also dances with the AVIV Dancers of Edmonton.

Rabbi Harari welcomes any questions about TBO and she can be contacted by e-mail, rabbitbo@shaw.ca or by phone 780.486.5871.