Barhan Worku is an active student leader in Nishmat’s Identity Seminars on Wheels (Midreshet Masa)–travelling throughout Israel speaking with elementary and high school kids about developing positive self-identity while combating racism and prejudice. She completed Nishmat’s N.E.W./ Maayan Pre-College program in 2019 and spent this past summer working in Camp Shoshanim in Pennsylvania. Being an Ethiopian… read more
Meital Sapir, Shana Ba’Aretz 2012-13, went on to study Religion and Philosophy at Barnard, including a semester abroad at UCL in London. Shortly after graduating in summer 2017, she made aliyah and settled in Tel Aviv with friends from Nishmat. In March 2018, she drafted to the IDF. Today, she serves as an officer in… read more
Yoetzet Halacha Rachel Eilon Kochva completed the Keren Ariel Yoetzet Halacha Fellowship this past summer (תשע”ט). She has continued her studies, working in Nishmat’s Research Institute for Yoatzot Responsa (Machon l’Mechkar) on the second edition of Nishmat Habayit while studying in Bar-Ilan University’s prestigious Talmud program and teaching kallot in her community. As part of Rachel’s work with Machon l’… read more
Yael Lebel studied in Nishmat’s Shiur Aleph in 2017 ( תשע”ז) and is currently in her third year of a degree program in Physics at Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in Beer Sheva. At BGU, Yael coordinates the Cooperative Beit Midrash Program (a part of the Bnei Akiva movement) the heart of all Torah study, lectures, and chavruta… read more
A native of Montreal, Yoetzet Halacha Hadassa Klein received a BA in History and Mathematics from Columbia University in NY and an MA in Modern Jewish History from New York University. She and her family made aliyah in 1999 and settled in Ramat Gan. Hadassa has been an active kallah teacher for the past 20 years, and this sparked her interest… read more
Yoetzet Halacha Ilana Hadad completed at Bachelors degree at Herzog College in Education with a special focus on Tanach and History, studied at MATAN and was accepted to Nishmat’s Keren Ariel Yoatzot Halacha Fellowship–graduating the program in 2017. In addition to studying in Migdal Oz’s Tochnit Halacha and pursuing a Masters’ degree in Tanach at Bar Ilan… read more
Tamar Blum is an alumna from Nishmat’s Shiur Aleph program. She was inspired at Nishmat to study education and worked as a teacher for several years. Tamar then decided to follow a second dream of hers and study Theater at Haifa University. She specialized in community theater and currently runs several social theater groups in Jerusalem. Tamar… read more
After studying in Shana Ba’Aretz in 2011-12, Emily Blady attended Barnard College, graduating with a BA in Applied Mathematics in 2016. She founded Barnard Quant, the Columbia/Barnard chapter of the Association of Women in Mathematics, led the Columbia/Barnard chapter of Challah For Hunger, and assisted the Barnard administration in launching the school’s first stand-alone computer science department by… read more
