Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash teaches contemporary halakhah and Talmud at Matan, Midreshet Torah V’Avodah (MTVA), Amudim and the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. She is the educational director of the Pardes Learning Seminar. She moved to Israel in 1991, after graduating with B.A. from Stern College in New York. Nechama holds a master's degree in Talmud from Bar-Ilan University and is a graduate of Nishmat’s Yoetzet Halacha program and fertility counselor's program, which certified her to serve as an advisor to individuals with halakhic questions around marital intimacy and is a certified sex educator. She is an alumna of Matan’s Advanced Talmud Institute where she studied in Matan’s Hilkhata, Advanced Institute for Halakhic Studies. Nechama is an active member of the rabbinic organization Beit Hillel and has participated in interfaith dialogue through Roots, an organization based in Gush Etzion where she lives.
