Reva Unterman is a columnist and author who uses the

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Reva Mann. Mann is the granddaughter of the former Chief

Ashkenazi Ashkenazi Jews ( ; he, יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, translit=Yehudei Ashkenaz, ; yi, אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or ''Ashkenazim'',, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singu ...

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of the State of Israel,

Isser Yehuda Unterman Isser Yehuda Unterman ( he, איסר יהודה אונטרמן, 19 April 1886 – 26 January 1976) was the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1964 until 1972.London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

but has lived in

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

since the mid-1980s. She attended a Jewish school in London until the age of ten. After her expulsion from Sinai College, a Jewish boarding school, her father sent her to Queen's College, a secular upper-class school for girls in London. Her autobiographical book, ''The Rabbi's Daughter: Sex, Drugs and Orthodoxy'', describes her teenage experiments with sex and drugs, study at the Or Zion women's yeshiva in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

, and eventual return to the Orthodox fold.Between cocaine and commandments – Haaretz – Israel News
/ref> Mann is a columnist '' TotallyJewish.com'', and previously for ''

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''. She is divorced with three children.

Books

*''The Rabbi's Daughter: Sex, Drugs and Orthodoxy''

References

External links

Author's website

Video interview about book ''The Rabbi's Daughter''

Times Online book review

Column in Totally Jewish

Column in The Jewish Advocate
English Jews Year of birth missing (living people) Living people People educated at Queen's College, London {{Judaism-bio-stub