Early Life
Bahr was raised in the Bronx, but moved to Israel with her mother at age 13, after her parents divorced. During her two years in the Israeli Army military intelligence she attained the rank of sergeant. As a young woman, she traveled throughout Southeast Asia and South America. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Brown University, where she studied neuropsychology and religious studies. Bahr did neuroscience and cancer research at Stanford University and Tel Aviv University.
She defines herself as an Israeli Jew.
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