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Anson Laytner

Anson Laytner

Rabbi Anson Laytner is program manager of the Interreligious Initiative at Seattle University School of Theology and Ministry. As a volunteer, he is past president of the Sino-Judaic Institute and edits its journal, Points East. He also serves on the advisory boards of Compassion and Choices, the UW Jewish Studies Program, and Personal Safety Nets.

Previously he worked as grants and contracts coordinator for the Jewish Family Service of Seattle, a bereavement chaplain with Kline Galland Hospice, interim rabbi at Congregation Kol HaNeshamah in West Seattle, and as executive director of the Seattle Chapter of the American Jewish Committee and of Multifaith Works, a Seattle non-profit agency serving people with AIDS. He also directed the Jewish Federation’s Community Relations Council.

Laytner is the author of the cult classic Arguing with God (Jason Aronson, 1998) and, with Dan Bridge, of The Animals’ Lawsuit Against Humanity (Fons Vitae, 2005). He has authored over sixty articles on subjects ranging from Jewish theology to the Arab-Israel conflict to the Chinese Jews. His work-in-progress is a study of god-concepts and the meaning of suffering entitled I Know There Is A God; I Just Don’t Know What S/He Does.

Laytner has a BA, summa cum laude, from York University in Toronto, a Masters of Hebrew Letters (MHL) and rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College, a Masters in Not-for-Profit Leadership (MNPL) from Seattle University, and an honorary Doctorate in Divinity from Hebrew Union College.

[Rabbi Laytner was married to the late Merrily McManus Laytner. He has two living daughters, three sons-in-law and four grandkids.]

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