Jennifer Raskas is a founder and inaugural scholar of the Ohr Torah Stone International Halakha Scholars Program as well as a faculty member at Midreshet Lindenbaum. She is on the leadership, teaching, and coaching team of The Orthodox Leadership Project and is a trained facilitator for Resetting the Table, which builds cultures of courageous dialogue across differences. Jennifer previously served as the Washington DC Director at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America where she spearheaded the institute’s efforts to provide Washington-based leaders with Jewish source-based thought leadership that helped them tackle the biggest challenges facing the Jewish Community. These leaders included White House staffers, Members of Congress, think tank analysts, executive directors of Jewish organizations, senior Jewish clergy and lay leaders. A graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Columbia University, she teaches classes widely on a variety of disciplines including Hebrew literary approaches to readings in Tanach and leadership development. Her articles and divrei Torah can be found in academic journals and in online Jewish learning forums.
