Rahel Berkovits became one of the world’s first Jewish “Rabbas” (the female form of “Rabbi”) when she received Orthodox smicha this past June at a ceremony in New York’s Yeshivat Maharat. Rahel lectures in Talmud, halakhah, and the status of women in Judaism at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, where she has been teaching for almost twenty years. She writes articles and lectures widely in both Israel and abroad on topics concerning women and Jewish law, and recently published the book A Daughter’s Recitation of Mourner’s Kaddish. She is a founding member of Congregation Shirah Hadasha, a halakhic partnership minyan, and she is the Halakhic Editor for TaShma JOFA’s Halakhic Source-guide Series.