Dr. Jennie Rosenfeld

Dr. Jennie Rosenfeld recently made aliyah to Jerusalem along with her husband and their baby daughter, and is currently a Junior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. Prior to making aliyah, Dr. Rosenfeld was the co-founder and director of Tzelem, a Special Project of Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future, whose mission is to bring more educational resources in the realms of intimacy and sexuality to the Orthodox community. She holds a PhD in English from the City University of New York Graduate Center, where she was a Wexner Graduate Fellow, and wrote her dissertation on "Talmudic Re-readings: Toward a Modern Orthodox Sexual Ethic." After graduating from Stern College for Women, Dr. Rosenfeld completed the Yeshiva University Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies for Women along with an MS at the Azrieli Graduate School of Education and Administration, and went on to teach Talmud at the Yeshiva University High School for Girls. She has taught Talmud, Jewish law, and Hasidism to women in New York City, Boston, and Berkeley, and was named one of the "36 under 36" by the Jewish Week in 2008.