Elhanan Miller

Elhanan Miller was born in 1981 in Jerusalem

Miller was born in Jerusalem in 1981 to a Modern Orthodox family. His father Ted was a family physician and his mother Reisie was a librarian. His parents came from Toronto, Canada, and he grew up in the Ramot neighborhood.

He studied Arabic at Himmelfarb High School and later served in the Intelligence Corps. After the army he studied at the Ein Tzurim yeshiva and earned a master's degree in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies at Hebrew University. He was active in the university debating club and reached the final of the 2007 world championship in Vancouver.

In 2010 he taught Jewish studies at a Jewish school in Paris for the Jewish Agency, then began work as a journalist on the Arab world. In 2012 he joined the founding staff of the Times of Israel as its Arab affairs reporter. From 2016 he worked as a freelance journalist, and in 2018 he interviewed Hamas official Husam Badran in Istanbul for Tablet magazine.

In 2016 he entered the Beit Midrash Harel rabbinical program and was ordained in 2019. He served as rabbi of the Jewish community in Canberra, Australia, in 2020. In 2017 he launched "People of the Book", short online videos that present Judaism to Arab viewers.