http://jewishlinknj.com/component/content/article?id=8855 On Monday evening, July 20, the Teaneck Yoetzet Halacha Initiative will present a series of dramatic monologues written by women from our community addressing the joys and challenges that Jewish women may experience at various stages in their lives. These include halachic infertility and the yearning for a child, intimacy issues and sexual education,… read more
Published May 28, 2015, in The Jewish Link NJ, by Sherry S. Kirschenbaum. What happens when a woman stops having children? This rarely discussed intimate subject was the focus of a shiur given by Yoetzet Halacha Nechama Price on “What to Expect After You Are Done Expecting: From Birth Control to Menopause.” Held May 5… read more
RACHEL SHARANSKY DANZIGER Times of Israel http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/nishmats-taharat-hamishpacha-hotline-by-women-for-women/ When I immersed in the mikveh for the first time, on the eve of my wedding, I was elated. I was excited to enter a whole new realm of Jewish life: Taharat Hamishpacha, the Jewish laws that relate to marriage and sexuality. Here I am, I thought, joining the ranks of… read more
by Lila Sarick, published in The Canadian Jewish News, November 4, 2014 TORONTO — Orthodox women who need to ask the most intimate, sensitive questions about their own bodies no longer need to approach a male rabbi or simply not ask out of embarrassment or modesty. Instead, a new group of highly trained women can advise… read more
by Lisa Septimus, Yoetzet Halacha. First published on Times of Israel, October 23, 2014 My email, Facebook, and Jewish media resources are inundated by the many articles and posts circulating about the recent alleged abuses by a prominent DC rabbi. Unfortunately this is not the first scandal to affect the Jewish community. Nonetheless, this case… read more
by Atara Eis, Yoetzet Halacha and Director of Nishmat's Miriam Glaubach Center. First published in Times of Israel, October 20, 2014 The discovery of acts of voyeurism allegedly committed by a prominent Orthodox Rabbi in a community mikveh is a betrayal that threatens trust both in the safety of a sacred Mitzvah and the integrity… read more
by Rabbanit Chana Henkin, first published on Times of Israel, October 19, 2014 Voyeurism in the mikveh is a grave violation of Jewish law and of the sacred trust between a community and its rabbi. It is particularly loathsome if, as charged, it involved abuse of converts who placed their trust in the converting rabbi.… read more
September 22, 2014, New Jersey Jewish News, by Johanna Ginsberg, NJJN Staff Writer Orthodox women in the Jersey Shore area with a need to discuss intimate aspects of Jewish law now have a new resource: a woman halachic decisor, specifically trained in a two-year course in taharat hamishpacha, or family purity laws. On Sept. 1, Nechama Price, instructor… read more
Published on The Tikvah Fund Website, January 13, 2014 In 2012-2013, Tova Ganzel took sabbatical from her role as deputy director of the Midrasha for Women at Bar Ilan University to serve as a Tikvah Fellow and to join her husband doing his own fellowship at Sloan-Kettering. Upon her return to Israel, she became the director of… read more
Published in The Jewish Link, by Lisa Matkowsky, December 13, 2013 Teaneck—Women in Bergen County are turning in droves to local Yoatzot Halacha (Women Consultants in Jewish Law) educated in both Israel and Teaneck. These scholars, graduates of the two-year Keren Ariel Yoetzet Halacha Program at Nishmat in Jerusalem, and the satellite program run… read more
