HARRIET BOGRAD

BOGRAD--Harriet. (April 6, 1943 - September 17, 2022), brilliantly led Kulanu, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting isolated, emerging, and returning Jewish communities around the globe, in 33 countries for two decades. Harriet specialized and advocated for Jewish diversity and inclusion. Lovingly known in Africa as Mama Harriet, she helped establish the Hadassah Primary School of Uganda. Harriet was a founder of the Heschel School in NYC and a prominent member of West End Synagogue. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College and Yale Law School, Harriet began her career working with community programs in low-income neighborhoods. She was blissfully married to Ken Klein for 45 years, loving mother of Rabbi Margie Klein Ronkin and Sarah Klein, mother-in-law to Jeremy Ronkin, and adoring grandmother of Uriel and Raziel.