Rabbanit Oshra Koren is the director of MaTaN (Women's Torah Institute) HaSharon and other MaTaN branches in Israel where she teaches Talmud and Tanach, and has a B.A. in Jewish Thought and Hebrew Literature from Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She founded the MaTaN Bat Mitzvah program, leads the Bat Kol Ensemble, is a member of the Raanana City Council, and is a sought after speaker both in Israel and abroad.