Dr. Jennie Rosenfeld
Dr. Jennie Rosenfeld is studying towards dayanut (for conversions and issues of marriage and divorce) at Midreshet Lindenbaum’s Institute for Halakhic Leadership and teaches Talmud in the Hartman High School for Girls in Jerusalem. She holds a PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center, where she wrote her dissertation on “Talmudic Re-readings: Toward a Modern Orthodox Sexual Ethic” as a Wexner Graduate Fellow. A graduate of Stern College, Jennie completed the Yeshiva University Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies for Women. Jennie lectures in Israel and abroad on topics relating to Judaism and sexuality, as well as Talmud and Hasidism, and was named one of the “36 under 36” by the Jewish Week in 2008. She co-authored “Et Le’ehov: The Newlywed’s Guide to Physical Intimacy”.