Almost 200 hundred friends, family, and rabbinic leaders took part in the graduation of the second class of Nishmat’s Miriam Glaubach Center’s U.S. Yoatzot Halacha Fellows Program at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun (KJ) this October. The seven graduates, Julia Baruch, Rookie Billet, Shira Donath, Shiffy Friedman, Talia Furleiter, Ilana Gadish and Dalia Shulman, studied diligently for… read more
by Elizabeth Kratz, The Jewish Link, October 15, 2015 Nishmat’s Miriam Glaubach Center, a branch of the Jeanie Schottenstein Center for Advanced Torah Study for Women in Jerusalem, has a U.S. Yoatzot Halacha Fellows Program, which is hosted at Teaneck’s Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls. This month, the program is holding its second-ever graduation,… read more
Nishmat’s students, faculty, alumnae, staff and friends are completely heartbroken at the loss and brutal murder of a beloved teacher and scholar, mentors to our students, and cherished friends Rabbi Eitam and Naama Henkin HaRav Eitam Shimon ben HaRav Yehuda Herzl v' HaRabanit Chana Henkin, Hy"d Naama bat Chanan v'Hila Armoni, Hy"d We share the grief… read more
Eulogy by Dr. Yagil Henkin, Military Historian and Lecturer at the IDF Command and Staff College, for his brother Rabbi Eitam Henkin I want to tell you a little bit about Eitam. Eitam was a jokester. I know it's surprising to say this at a funeral, and all the more so, about a rabbi and… read more
Baruch Dayan Haemet. The Nishmat community is shocked and heartbroken at the brutal murder of our beloved teacher and friend, Rabbi Eitam Henkin, and his beloved wife, Naama. We are devastated beyond words for his parents, Rabbanit Chana Henkin, Founder and Dean of Nishmat, and Rabbi Yehuda Henkin, our teacher and guide, and for the… 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
Nishmat won the public tender of the Israel Ministry of Religious Affairs to run training courses for mikveh attendants across the country. The purpose of this program is to provide a paradigm shift to existing attendants, most of whom are hareidi, sensitizing them to the needs of women using the mikveh. The mikveh is one… 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
