Speaker Profile Rabbanit Jennifer Raskas

Rabbanit Jennifer Raskas is the Community Scholar at Shir Hadash in Jerusalem, where she offers teaching, drashot, and pastoral counseling. She is a founder and graduate of the International Halakha Scholars Program of Ohr Torah Stone, and is on the faculty of Midreshet Lindenbaum, where she teaches leadership. She is a Rabbi Sacks Legacy Scholar and a trained facilitator for the organization ‘Resetting the Table’, which builds cultures of dialogue across differences. She served as a leadership educator and coach for the Orthodox Leadership Project, where she wrote their primary leadership training curriculum. She received her master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and graduated from Columbia University, Magna Cum Laude. Her articles and Divrei Torah have appeared in academic journals and in online Jewish learning forums.