Rabbanit Jennifer Raskas

Rabbanit Jennifer Raskas currently serves as the inaugural Community Scholar at Shir Hadash in Jerusalem, where she offers teaching, drashot, and pastoral counseling. Rabbanit Raskas is a founder of the Ohr Torah Stone International Halakha Scholars Program and a faculty member at Midreshet Lindenbaum. Additionally, she is on the leadership team of The Orthodox Leadership Project and a trained facilitator for Resetting the Table, promoting courageous dialogue across differences.

Rabbanit Raskas 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 thought leadership, including White House staffers, Members of Congress, think tank analysts, executive directors, senior clergy and philanthropists. While at Hartman she also directed the Institute’s year-long Seminar and Writer’s Workshop for Journalists, the publishing of the Institute’s North American Hitkansut Haggadah L’Yom HaShoah, and she served as a Co-Director of the Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative from 2022-2024. A graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Columbia University, Rabbanit Raskas is an active writer and speaker across diverse Jewish platforms.

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Rabbanit Jennifer Raskas’ Times of Israel blog

Teshuva, Transgression and Transformation – A Journey Through Tanach

Ruth vs. Judges: A Righteous Revelation of Literary Inversions and Lessons to Live By

Matan ‘One on One Parsha Podcast’: Parshat Vayelech: Public Activism and Moshe’s Final Moments

An Opportunity to Listen, Ohr Torah Stone, September 2023

From Chaos to Light (Chanukah article, Times of Israel)

For Goodness Sake, Ethical and Textual Illuminations in Megilat Esther (February 2021, Times of Israel)

Echo Chambers of Babel (Ohr Torah Stone, October 2020)

John Locke, COVID-19, and the Second Tablets (Times of Israel, May 2020)

Taking Control of the Narrative: Writing in the Scroll of Esther (Times of Israel, March 2020)

Maggid, Moshe, Story-telling and Story-living, Lehrhaus, March 2018

The Book of Ruth: A Contrast to the End of the Book of Judges, Jewish Bible Quarterly, Volume 43:4, December 2015

Special Series: The Tikkun of Ruth I-V, 929.org, March 2019