Celebrating our Graduates,
Your Yoatzot
On Thursday, November 28, 2024, join Nishmat’s Miriam Glaubach Center’s (MGC) U.S. Yoatzot Halacha Fellows Program (YH/US) in Jerusalem! Yoatzot Halacha from the Diaspora will gather in our most holy city to celebrate the 26 outstanding women certified as Yoatzot Halacha (women advisors in Jewish law) between the years 2017-2023. We honor the scholarship, achievements and community service of Yoatzot Halacha who live in California, Canada, Czechia, England, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
NISHMAT
The Jeanie Schottenstein Center
for Advanced Torah Study for Women
for Advanced Torah Study for Women
Rabbanit Chana Henkin,
Founder and Chancellor
Rabbanit Yoetzet Halacha Atara Eis,
Dean
Rabbanit Yoetzet Halacha Ilana Hadad,
Dean
Keren Ariel
Yoatzot Halacha Program
Yoatzot Halacha Program
Rav Yehuda Herzl Henkin zt”l,
Founding Dean
Rabbi Yaacov Warhaftig,
Dean
NISHMAT’S Miriam Glaubach Center
Yoetzet Halacha Dena Block,
Director
Rabbanit Karen Hochhauser,
Director
Rabbi Kenneth Auman,
Dean
Rabbi Gedalyah Berger,
Senior Lecturer
Rabbanit Yoetzet Halacha Noa Lau,
Program Advisor
Dr. Bat-Sheva Maslow,
Medical Curriculum Consultant
Rabbinic Testers
Rabbi Assaf Bednarsh
Rabbi Yitzchak HaLevi
Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin, zt”l
Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon
Rabbi Ezra Schwartz
Rabbi Yaacov Warhaftig
Honorary Rabbinic Advisory Committee
(in formation)
Rabbi Yosef Adler
Rabbi Gershon Albert
Rabbi Daniel Alter
Rabbi Avi Anderson*
Rabbi Jared Anstandig
Rabbi Dovid Asher
Rabbi Mosheh Aziz
Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman
Rabbi Jack Bieler
Rabbi Hershel Billet
Rabbi Donald Bixon
Rabbi Yosef Blau
Rabbi Binyamin Blau*
Rabbi David Block
Rabbi Akiva Block*
Rabbi Robert Block
Rabbi Kenneth Brander
Rabbi Tuvia Brander*
Rabbi Nasanayl Braun*
Rabbi Noah Cheses*
Rabbi Michael Davies
Rabbi Jeremy Donath*
Rabbi Barry Dolinger*
Rabbi Mark Dratch
Rabbi Roy Feldman*
Rabbi Sam Fromson
Rabbi Menachem Genack
Rabbi Shmuel Goldin
Rabbi Seth Grauer*
Rabbi Aaron Greenberg*
Rabbi Shmuel Hain*
Rabbi Kenneth Hain
Rabbi Avi Harari
Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot*
Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky*
Rabbi Jay Kelman
Rabbi Samuel Klibanoff*
Rabbi Barry Kornblau
Rabbi Daniel Korobkin*
Rabbi Binyamin Lehrfield*
Rabbi Ian Lichter*
Rabbi Haskel Lookstein*
Rabbi Joshua Lookstein
Rabbi Elan Mazer
Rabbi Adam Mintz*
Rabbi Jonathan Morgenstern*
Rabbi Jonathan Muskat
Rabbi Elazar Muskin*
Rabbi Ari Neumann
Rabbi Dale Polakoff
Rabbi Chaim Poupko*
Rabbi Ariel Rackovsky
Rabbi Shaul Robinson*
Rabbi Daniel Rockoff
Rabbi Ari Rockoff
Rabbi Daniel Roselaar
Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg
Rabbi Dr. Benjamin J. Samuels*
Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter
Rabbi Kenneth Schiowitz*
Rabbi Ezra Schwartz
Rabbi Ronald Schwarzberg
Rabbi Meir Sendor
Rabbi Yehuda Septimus*
Rabbi Albert Setton
Rabbi Daniel Sherman*
Rabbi Ely Shestack
Rabbi Michael Shmidman
Rabbi Tzvi Sinensky
Rabbi Adam Starr*
Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz*
Rabbi Chaim Strauchler*
Rabbi Jason Strauss*
Rabbi Yaakov Taubes*
Rabbi Michael Taubes*
Rabbi Etan Tokayer
Rabbi Kalman Topp*
Rabbi Brahm Weinberg*
Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
Rabbi Yosef Weinstock
Rabbi Dr. Richard Weiss
Rabbi Elie Weissman*
Rabbi Jeremy Wieder
Rabbi Dov Winston
Rabbi Yitz Wyne*
Rabbi Howard Zack
Rabbi Dovid Zirkind*
Rabbi Yoni Zolty*
Rabbi Oran Zweiter
*Rabbi of Kehillah employing a Yoetzet Halacha
American Friends of Nishmat
Sharon Liberman Mintz
President
Wendy Greenbaum
Vice President
Binyamin Rieder
Treasurer
Stephen M. Flatow
Adina Fredman
Executive Committee at Large
Giti Bendheim
Yoatzot Halacha Chair
Alisha Abboudi
Executive Director
Shevi Bacharach
Director of Finance
and Administration
American Friends of Nishmat Board
Nicole Schreiber Agus
Julia Baruch
Tirza Bayewitz
Giti Bendheim
Tammy Bryk
Susan F. Charendoff
Robert Davis
Stephen M. Flatow
Adina Fredman
Rose Gerszberg
Miriam Herlinger Glaubach
Felix Glaubach
Wendy Greenbaum
Karen Heilig
Ari Herman
Michael G. Jesselson
Constance Kadish
Tamar Kahane
Chavie Kahn
Nicole Kavana
Rabbi Haskel Lookstein
Rabbi Joshua Lookstein
David Lunzer
Matthew J. Maryles
Linda Goldenberg Mayman
Rochelle Stern Major
Francine Mermelstein
Sharon Liberman Mintz
Binyamin Rieder
Michelle Ritholtz
Jeanie Schottenstein
Sandy Seligsohn
Lisa Septimus
Liora Stein
Robyn Tsesarsky
Judy Tuchman
Roselyn Weitzner
Miriam Glaubach Center Advisory Board
Sarah Roer Bendheim
Hadassah Lieberman
Co-chairs
Alison Anziska
Debby Aqua
Giti Bendheim
Samantha Bryk
Tammy Bryk
Amy Fox Griffel
Faye Koschitzky
Rachel Laufer
Graduation Steering Committee*
Risa Gewurz, Brookline, MA
Tali Jacobson, Los Angeles, CA
Naomi Kadish, New York, NY
Becky Katz, Teaneck, NJ
Rachel Tuchman, Woodmere, NY
*in formation