Rivka Wietchner is a rabbinical student in Yeshivat Maharat and writing about gender and halakha as a graduate student in Bar Ilan University. She holds an MA in Theory and Policy of Art from Bezalel Academy of Art and is a member of the Israeli Rabbinate Network and an RLI fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

 

Previously, she was part of various Beit Midrash programs and served as halakha director in Midrashiya High School for Girls and as an OU-JLIC Co-Director and Educator at University of Chicago Hillel. She is originally from Har Bracha in Samaria, Israel and now lives in Jerusalem. She is a mother of four amazing kids and married to David, a rabbi and doctoral student at Bar Illan University. She believes in connection between different leaders and communities and hopes to develop a unique and inclusive halakhic voice by bringing together cultural theories and deep Torah study.