Rabbi/PhD Katja Vehlow

Raised in southern Germany, Rabbi Dr. Katja Vehlow is a former professor of Jewish and religious studies. She lives with her family in New York City and has served as a hospital chaplain, providing spiritual care to people of all faiths and none. She is herself an immigrant and a convert to Judaism.

Katja received her ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in May 2022. Prior to rabbinical school, she taught Religious and Jewish Studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC from 2008-2017. She received her doctoral degree from New York University and was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the Jewish Studies Program and the Institute for Research and the Humanities at the UW-Madison.