Rabbanit Jennifer Raskas
Sacks Scholar
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.