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• Mrs. Rivka Alter Congregation Darchei Noam
  Fairlawn, NJ February 8, 2025 More about this speaker
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  Mrs. Rivka Alter

  Rivka Alter presently serves as a yoetzet halacha in Riverdale, New York and Teaneck, New Jersey. She is also a member of the Judaic studies faculty at Maayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls. Rivka is an experienced kallah teacher and serves as a mentor for Nishmat’s kallah teacher training program. She frequently teaches adults and teens locally, on Zoom, and for the OU Women’s Initiative. Rivka and her husband Daniel served as Rav and Rebbetzin in Denver, Colorado for fifteen years and currently reside in Bergenfield, New Jersey. 

• Mrs. Rachel Besser Congregation Beth Abraham
  Bergenfield, NJ February 15, 2025 More about this speaker
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  Mrs. Rachel Besser

  Rachel Besser is the Nach Department Chair at the Frisch School in Paramus, NJ, where she also teaches Tanach and Jewish philosophy and is a member of the Israel Guidance Department. A graduate of Stern College for Women, Rachel received her master’s degree in English literature from Hunter College in New York City. At the OU Women’s Initiative, Rachel taught Sefer Yirmiyahu and Sefer Ezra as part of the Torat Imecha Nach Yomi program.  She presented a Nach Yomi Siyum shiur, Rosh Chodesh shiur and served as a Counting Toward Sinai Scholar-in-Residence. Rachel lives in Clifton, NJ with her husband Donny and six children. 

• Mrs. Adina Blaustein Kemp Mill Synagogue
  Silver Spring, MD March 29, 2025 More about this speaker
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  Mrs. Adina Blaustein

  Adina Blaustein lives in Beachwood, Ohio, and is the Content Production Manager at Aleph Beta. She also serves Green Road Synagogue as the Yoetzet Halacha. She is an experienced educator of both students and adults. She has served as Tanach department chair at the Fuchs Mizrachi School and as the Director of Student Life at Fuchs Mizrachi and Ida Crown Jewish Academy. She holds a B.A. in English Literature and an M.A. in Bible from Yeshiva University, an M.A. in English Education from Brooklyn College, and was certified as a Yoetzet Halacha from Nishmat’s Miriam Glaubach Center’s U.S. Yoatzot Halacha Fellows Program. In 2018, Adina won the Kohelet Prize for her innovative approach to Tanach education. Adina is currently writing a book about haftorot as part of the Sefaria Word-by-Word fellowship. 

• Mrs. Batyah Brander Adas Torah
  Los Angeles, CA March 8, 2025 More about this speaker
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  Mrs. Batyah Brander

  Batyah Brander, ne’ Lahasky, is a New York native, living in Los Angeles for over 30 years.   Batyah earned her bachelor’s degree from Cooper Union School of Engineering and her teaching certificate from Machon Gold Seminary.   Over the past 30 years, she has been involved in Jewish Education on the High School and adult level.  She currently teaches Nach and STEM at Machon Los Angeles and for the LINK Kollel, which her husband founded.  Mrs. Batyah Brander enjoys challenging herself and her students to delve deeply into the text and uncover the multilayered majesty that G-d has planted within His Torah. 
• Ms. Elana Flaumenhaft Congregation Beth Aaron
  Teaneck, NJ February 1, 2025 More about this speaker
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  Ms. Elana Flaumenhaft

  Ms. Elana Flaumenhaft is Associate Principal at Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls. She has been teaching Tanach for over two decades. Elana holds a master’s degree from Azrieli Graduate School of Education and Administration at Yeshiva University and received the 2005 Grinspoon-Steinhardt Award for Excellence in Jewish Education. She delivers shiurim and lecture series and presents at Yemei Iyun throughout the Metro New York and New Jersey area. Elana enjoys learning with people of all ages and backgrounds.  At the OU Women’s Initiative, Elana has served as a Counting Toward Sinai Scholar-in-Residence and has presented shiurim as part of the Counting Toward Sinai Tefillah Series, the Rosh Chodesh Lunch ‘n Learn programs, and Torat Imecha Nach Yomi.  

• Mrs. Reena Fohrman Lower Merion Synagogue
  Bala Cynwyd, PA February 22, 2025 More about this speaker
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  Mrs. Reena Fohrman

  Reena Fohrman has taught Tanach for more than thirty years. She has inspired students at Bais Yaakov Baltimore, MMY Seminary in Jerusalem and, more recently, at Meira High School in Palo Alto, California. She’s also taught Tanach to women’s groups in Baltimore, New York and Israel, and at various holiday retreats in the tri-state area. Her love for Tanach was kindled at a young age by her father, who lovingly collected the original Gilyonot of Nechama Leibovitz, won the Chidon HaTanach Hatzeva’i, and would sing the whole of Shir HaShirim as he cleaned up after the Pesach Seder. Reena has kept the Chidon HaTanach tradition alive in her own family, learning with her children for untold hours on the couch as they prepared for participation in the National Chidon HaTanach. Reena holds a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts. and an M.A. in Education from John Carroll University. When she’s not in Israel, she lives in Woodmere, New York, with her husband and children. 

• Mrs. Amy Horowitz Congregation Anshei Shalom
  West Hempstead, NY February 8, 2025 More about this speaker
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  Mrs. Amy Horowitz

  Amy Horowitz studied English Literature at Stern College for Women and holds a Master’s Degree in Education from NYU. Although she began her career as a copyeditor, Amy quickly discovered her passion for teaching Tanach, which she has done at Katz Yeshiva High School of South Florida for the past 19 years, also serving as Director of Girls Judaic Studies and Chairperson of the Tanach Department. At the OU Women’s Initiative, Amy taught Sefer Yeshayahu to over 5,000 women worldwide as part of the Torat Imecha Nach Yomi program in addition to Rosh Chodesh Lunch ‘N Learn. In addition to teaching high school students, Amy frequently teaches classes to the adult community in Boca Raton, FL, where she lives with her three children. 

• Mrs. Michal Horowitz Ohr HaTorah; Congregation Bnai Yeshurun
  Dallas, TX; Teaneck, NJ February 23, 2025; March 8, 2025 More about this speaker
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  Mrs. Michal Horowitz

  Michal Horowitz delivers weekly shiurim in her community of the Five Towns, NY, while her Zoom shiurim reach audiences around the world. She has been a scholar in residence in schools and communities, nationally and internationally. In September 2023, Michal was a keynote speaker at Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis’ Pre-Yamim Noraim Conference, for the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. At the OU Women’s Initiative, she inaugurated the Torat Imecha Parsha program presenting weekly shiurim on Sefer Bereishit. Michal taught Yehoshua, Tehillim 36-41, and Divrei Hayamim II to over 5,000 women across the globe as part of the Torat Imecha Nach Yomi cycle I. She taught Tehillim 1-41, and Mishlei for cycle II.  Michal presented Rosh Chodesh, Selichot Night and Nach Yomi Siyum shiurim and taught in-depth courses at the ALIT Virtual Summer Learning Programs of 2020, ’21, ’22, and ’23.  Michal’s weekly OU Parsha shiur can be found on the AllParsha App. She has thousands of audio and video shiurim online.  Her writings have been published in YU’s Torah-To-Go, HaMizrachi, the OU’s Jewish Action magazine, and most recently in “Reclaiming Dignity: A Guide to Tzniut”.  Her story can be found on all major streaming platforms on the “Rolling With the Punches” Podcast, Episode 14, Sounds of Silence. Michal lives in Woodmere, NY with her husband and family. 

• Mrs. Chana Meira Katz Congregation Kesser Israel
  Portland, OR February 8, 2025 More about this speaker
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  Mrs. Chana Meira Katz

  With over 20 years of teaching and four years of administrative experience, Mrs. Chana Meira Katz has dedicated her career to educating women in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Los Angeles, California. Her multifaceted approach to Torah learning integrates her Hadar Bais Yaakov education, Ohr Lagolah Kiruv training, as well as a Master of Science in Jewish Education from Azrieli Graduate School of Education and Administration and a Master of Education in Teacher Leadership from Brandeis University. She currently teaches at Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy in Los Angeles and extends her impact by hosting weekly shiurim for women in the local community. Passionate about empowering women through Torah study, Chana Meira is dedicated to making Torah learning not only accessible but also profoundly relevant to women’s lives.

• Mrs. Rachel Kosowsky ASKT
  Glendale, WI February 8, 2025 More about this speaker
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  Mrs. Rachel Kosowsky

  Rachel Kosowsky is the high school principal at Farber Hebrew Day School– Yeshivat Akiva in Southfield, MI. In addition to her job as principal, she teaches limudei kodesh at Farber Hebrew Day School and delivers a weekly gemara shiur at the Young Israel of Southfield. Her previous experience includes serving as Tanach Department Chair, as well as twenty-six years of teaching Judaic Studies in Rockville and Baltimore, MD. She holds a BA in Philosophy from Barnard College, and an MA in Jewish Thought from Baltimore Hebrew University. She also studied at Drisha Institute in NY, Midreshet Lindenbaum, Nishmat and Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. She has served as a teacher mentor with the Jewish New Teacher Project and regularly lectures to adult audiences. At the OU Women’s Initiative, Rachel has presented shiurim for the Rosh Chodesh program, served as a Counting Toward Sinai scholar-in-residence, spoken about tefillah as part of the Counting Toward Sinai Tefillah series, and taught Tehillim for Torat Imecha Nach Yomi. She is married to Rabbi Ira S. Kosowsky, who is also a Jewish educator. They are the proud parents of four children. 

• Dr. Michelle Levine Young Israel of Brookline
  Brookline, MA February 8, 2025 More about this speaker
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  Dr. Michelle Levine

  Dr. Michelle Levine is a tenured Associate Professor of Bible in the Rebecca Ivry Department of Jewish Studies at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, where she teaches courses in Tanach and medieval commentaries. She is also a faculty member of the GPATS Master’s program, Tanach Track. She holds a Master’s degree in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and a PhD degree in medieval biblical exegesis and medieval Jewish history from New York University. Dr. Levine is the author of “Nahmanides on Genesis: The Art of Biblical Portraiture” (Brown University Press, 2009), and she has published numerous articles on topics of Tanach and medieval Jewish exegesis. Dr. Levine lectures widely to Jewish communities in the U.S., Israel, and Canada. She has also been teaching an ongoing weekly adult Tanach series in her Queens, New York, community for the past twenty-four years.

• Mrs. Sarah Lipman Congregation Ahavas Achim
  Highland Park, NJ February 15, 2025 More about this speaker
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  Mrs. Sarah Lipman

  Mrs. Sarah Lipman is the founder and CTO of Power2B Inc., and award-winning inventor of its 3D touchscreen technology. In two decades as a User Interaction professional, primarily in mobile and telecoms, she has authored numerous patents and published pieces, innovating new technologies years ahead of the state of the art. While living in Jerusalem for 16 years, she founded the Kishor Women’s Professional Network and The Jerusalem Hub (both now projects of Temech), for which work she received the prestigious Boneh Yerushalayim award in December 2010. Now residing in Los Angeles, Sarah teaches Chumash and the history of Jerusalem at Bais Yaakov Machon Los Angeles high school. She is active in communal affairs and coaches to mid- and top-level executives in UX-design and education.
  At the OU Women’s Initiative, Sarah taught Sefer Mishlei  as part of the Torat Imecha Nach Yomi program and Themes of Sefer Bereishit Through the Commentary of Rav Hirsch, as part of the ALIT Summer Vitrual Beit Midrash 2021.    

   

• Mrs. Chana Leah Rapoport Women's Nishmat Circle
  Toronto, Ontario February 8, 2025 More about this speaker
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  Mrs. Chana Leah Rapoport

  Mrs. Chana Leah Rapoport, a principal and teacher in Toronto, is a veteran educator who gives many weekly adult classes. She is an international lecturer, whose shiurim have been enjoyed by diverse audiences. For over two decades, Mrs. Rapoport has spent her summers in Moscow, Russia, where she is the director of Camp Eitz Chaim. 

• Dr. Esther Shkop Nach Yomi Women of Fair Lawn
  Fairlawn, NJ February 5, 2025 More about this speaker
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  Dr. Esther Shkop

  Dr. Esther Shkop is renowned for her dynamic and innovative approach to learning and teaching Tanach, which has fascinated and inspired audiences of varied ages and levels of erudition and Biblical literacy. She previously served as a Professor of Tanach and as Dean of the Blitstein Institute of Hebrew Theological College. A tenth-generation Yerushalmit, Dr. Shkop’s education was divided between Israel and the United States, and she is fluent in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish. She earned a B.A. in English Literature and Philosophy, a Master’s Degree in Biblical Literature, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis. Her eclectic background has broadened her horizons and enriched her classic study of Torah. Dr. Shkop has been active in various community service organizations, has won various awards for her public service and scholarship, including the Freedom Award of the Templeton Foundation. 

• Mrs. Jaclyn Sova Congregation Ohr Torah
  Edison, NJ February 8, 2025 More about this speaker
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  Mrs. Jaclyn Sova

  After graduating from SKA High School for Girls, Michlalah, and Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, Jaclyn got her master’s in education from the Azrieli Graduate School of Education and Administration and is in the process of finishing the doctoral program there. While in New York, Jaclyn taught at SKA. When her family moved to Baltimore, MD she started teaching at Bnos Yisroel and Beth Tfiloh’s high schools while also lecturing throughout the community. She launched a program for high school girls called BGCubed, giving Bais Yaakov girls the opportunity to have meaningful Jewish experiences outside of school where they can grow socially, emotionally, and religiously.   

• Mrs. Keshet Starr, Esq. Kehillat Shaarei Torah of Toronto
  Toronto, Ontario February 8, 2025 More about this speaker
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  Mrs. Keshet Starr, Esq.

  Keshet Starr, Esq., is the Executive Director of the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot (ORA), the nonprofit organization addressing the agunah (Jewish divorce refusal) crisis on a case-by-case basis worldwide. At ORA, Keshet oversees advocacy and early intervention initiatives designed to assist individuals seeking a Jewish divorce, along with prevention initiatives to eliminate abuse from the Jewish divorce process. Keshet has written for outlets such as the Times of Israel, The Forward and Haaretz, and frequently presents on issues related to Jewish divorce, domestic abuse, and the intersection between civil and religious divorce processes. Keshet has also authored academic work focused on get refusal and domestic abuse and is a Wexner Field Fellow. A graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Keshet lives in central New Jersey with her husband and four young children. In addition to her work with ORA, Keshet supports local women’s learning initiatives and presents shiurim on a broad range of Tanach related topics. Keshet particularly enjoys connecting Tanach to issues in modern life.

   

• Mrs. Sara Malka Winter Young Israel of Queens Valley
  Flushing, NY February 8, 2025 More about this speaker
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  Mrs. Sara Malka Winter

  Mrs. Sara Malka Winter holds a Master of Science degree in education and is a sought-after speaker in her community of Silver Spring, Maryland. As a teenager, Mrs. Winter founded Ashreinu, a Canadian kiruv organization dedicated to Jewish outreach to the Russian immigrant community, which has influenced hundreds of girls. Mrs. Winter lived in Israel for eight years with her family, where she taught and lectured across Jerusalem in seminaries, outreach centers, and high schools. In 2008, Mrs. Winter moved to Maryland to help found the Greater Washington Community Kollel, together with her husband, Rabbi Menachem Winter. She continues to lecture throughout the Washington, DC area as a Senior Lecturer for the Kollel on diverse topics, including Tefillah, Chumash, Nach, Tehillim, Chagim, and Mitzvos. Mrs. Winter is also a beloved teacher at the Yeshiva of Greater Washington Girls Division. At the OU Women’s Initiative, Sara Malka taught Sefer Tehillim 53-62 and 120-134 to over 5,000 women worldwide as part of the Torat Imecha Nach Yomi program.

• Mrs. Tzivi Zuckerman Southeast Hebrew Congregation-Knesses Yehoshua
  Silver Spring, MD February 8, 2025 More about this speaker
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  Mrs. Tzivi Zuckerman

  Tzivi Zuckerman holds a BA in History and an MA in Jewish History, and taught World History, Jewish History and Tanach for over 15 years at a variety of schools, including Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls, Michlalah Jerusalem College, Bais Yaakov of Baltimore and Columbus Torah Academy. Since moving to Columbus, Ohio, Tzivi has taught a range of community classes on Taharas HaMishpacha, relationships, Jewish history and Jewish thought. In addition to teaching women in the community, Tzivi teaches High School Navi at CTA’s GHSP division. Tzivi has taught in a variety of forums for the OU Women’s Initiative, including Haggadah Ideas and Inspiration and Rosh Chodesh Lunch N Learn, as a scholar in residence for Nach Yomi Nach Shabbat, and Sefer Melachim II for the previous cycle of Nach Yomi Torat Imecha.