Nishmat Yoetzet Halacha Nechama Price, Director of Yeshiva University’s Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Study for Women (GPATS), begins her revealing new book, Tribal Blueprints: Twelve Brothers and the Destiny of Israel, with Rachel and Leah, two of the four mothers of Jacob’s sons, joined later by Bilha and Zilpa, Jacob’s “secondary wives.” She brings… Read More
TIMES OF ISRAEL THE BLOGS Lisa Septimus Are our black neighbors comfortable? Do we stop ourselves from making racist jokes and refuse to tolerate them at all? Examining our own conduct is our first step forward I bought my house 12 years ago from a very nice family. They had many friends and seemed clean… Read More
Written by Yoetzet Halacha Atara Eis, Director of Nishmat’s Miriam Glaubach Center and U.S. Yoatzot Halacha Fellows Program Imagine you’re on business or vacation in an exotic location, and you’re scheduled to immerse in the mikveh. You have one problem – no access to a kosher man-made mikveh for immersion. Perhaps you call me, a… Read More
Our English-Language Kallah Teacher Course, taught by Yoatzot Halacha Hadassa Klein and Yoatzot Halacha Dr. Deena Zimmerman, launched last night in Modi’in. Participants include women from Givat Shmuel, Beit Shemesh, Jerusalem, Chashmona’im, and more…! B’hatzlacha! Read More
The Jerusalem Post / JPost.com’s “Halachic Handbook for the coronavirus pandemic” shares some of the guidelines we’ve recently posted for mikveh use during the pandemic. See Nishmat Guidelines >>
Veteran Yoetzet Halacha Shoshana Samuels stepped back into Nishmat’s Bet Midrash last week for the first time in eight years. Awarded an Advanced Torah Fellowship from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and pursuing research in Nishmat’s Machon l’Mechkar (Research Institute for Yoatzot Responsa), she is authoring a groundbreaking comprehensive textbook for kallah teachers, women… Read More
With 20 Yoatzot Halacha newly certified in the U.S. and Israel this summer, 142 practicing Yoatzot Halacha are assisting and advising women and families worldwide. This summer, Nishmat also enrolled 26 new Yoatzot Halacha Fellows: 12 through Nishmat’s Keren Ariel Program in Israel and 14 through Nishmat’s Miriam Glaubach Center (MGC) in the U.S. What’s… Read More
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