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Devorah Chasky is an experienced educator with a rich background in teaching Tanach and Aggadah at institutions such as Midreshet Moriah, Midreshet Lindenbaum, and Be’er Miriam. She has been a participant in the Lindenbaum Educator’s Fellowship and in Matan’s Bellows Eshkolot Fellowship, where she studied Tanach and innovative pedagogical methods with leading scholars in Bible […]

Mrs. Shifra Rabenstein has been teaching Limudei Kodesh subjects to high school students for over twenty-five years.  She has served as a mentor to high school teachers, offering guidance on issues such as lesson preparation, classroom management, implementation of instructional strategies, and addressing the needs of specific students.  She helped structure a high school curriculum […]

Shulamit Hurwitz, lives in West Hempstead with her husband and four children. She has a Masters in Clinical Nutrition from NYU but gives of her time to community work. She has served as sisterhood vice president and president of the Young Israel of West Hempstead for five years and is currently PTA president for Yeshiva […]

One step. One trait. One day at a time.  Join thousands of women worldwide working on a new middah each week. Listen to the Counting Towards Sinai audio series featuring daily short, inspirational thoughts during Sefirat HaOmer from April 21 to May 30.   Further your growth on Shabbos with guided learning resources provided by the OU Women’s Initiative […]

Gather your community to learn the whole Torah on Shavuot in one hour.

Neti Penstein is currently in the Shana Gimmel program at Yeshiva University’s Graduate Program for Advanced Talmudic Studies (GPATS) and teaches a Gemara course at Stern College for Women. She holds master’s degrees in Talmud and Jewish Law from GPATS and in Jewish Philosophy from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. After studying […]

Mrs. Rachel Kraus is an Executive-In-Residence at LionTree LLC a global merchant bank, where she advises on impact strategy and is the co-host of the ‘Listen on Purpose’ podcast. She is also the Director of Community Education at Kehilath Jeshurun where she provides life cycle pastoral care, teaches, and facilitates educational programming. She has over […]

Tzipora Pogrund is a Rebbetzin and the Director of Community Engagement, Ohr Somayach Johannesburg, South Africa. She is also the Community Director for the Hazel Sassoon Women’s Learning Center. An enthusiastic mother of five, she also runs a weekly in person parenting schmooze and facilitates a number of community wide activities and programs for women […]

The Pesach Essay Collection is a series of inspiring thoughts written by OU Women’s Initiative educators Mrs. Esti Kimche, Mrs. Jaclyn Sova, Mrs. Shira Hochheimer and Mrs. Sara Malka Winter.