Hannah Nathans

In 2016, she became the rabbi of the Open Jewish Congregation Klal Israel in Delft. Delft is a Reconstructionist community with an outreach orientation where everybody with Jewish ancestry or a deep longing for a Jewish life is welcome. For this congregation, Nathans gives giyur training. In 2017 she co-founded the Virtual European Minyan, which provides online services. The Virtual Minyan is intended to serve those who do not have access to Jewish services of their choice in their place of residence, but is open to all.

Beginning in 2012, she worked as rabbi of the congregation Beit ha’Chidush (House of Renewal), affiliated with Liberal Judaism UK.

In 2005, Nathans completed training as a Jewish Spiritual Director at Lev Shomea, Institute for Jewish Spiritual Direction. In 2007, Nathans' Consultancy became part of Rijnconsult, and Nathans founded HaMakor, Centre for Jewish Spirituality. Nathans earned a master in Hebrew language and culture at the University of Amsterdam. She studied to become a rabbi with Aleph Alliance for Jewish Renewal, a neo-hasidic movement founded by the late Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, where she received her Semikha in January 2014.

Hannah Nathans worked for the Dutch government as a policymaker, trainer, and consultant (1970–1985). After several years as a senior consultant in a training and consulting firm, she started her own business, Nathan's Consultancy, in 1989. She was one of the first to introduce the enneagram in the Netherlands and wrote a book about it. The enneagram is a system of nine personality types, strongly related to the kabbalistic tree of life.

Hannah Nathans (born 1944 in Amsterdam) is an author and spiritual counselor. She is currently working as rabbi of the Open Jewish Congregation Klal Israel in Delft, and is leading HaMakor for the Centre for Jewish Spirituality.

Hannah Nathans was born in 1944 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Nathans is Jewish from patrilineal descent.