Rabbi Elhanan Miller is the founding director of People of the Book, an educational non-profit that teaches Jewish faith and culture to Muslim audiences. Using viral videos disseminated on social media, the initiative currently boasts some 450,000 subscribers and millions of monthly hits, mostly in the Arab Middle East. 

 

Miller is a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, specializing in Arab and Israeli politics and the intersection of Judaism and Islam. He regularly comments on Israeli affairs for international Arabic news channels, including: BBC Arabic, Sky News Arabia, DW Arabic, France 24 Arabic, al-Mashhad (Dubai), and Israeli public news channel Makan.

 

Miller previously served as the Arab affairs correspondent for The Times of Israel and as rabbi of the Jewish community in Canberra, Australia. Born and raised in Jerusalem, Miller began studying Arabic at 13. He completed his BA (cum laude) and MA degrees in Middle East history and Islamic studies at Hebrew University. He is fluent in English, Hebrew, Arabic, French and Yiddish.