Rabbanit Jennifer Raskas teaches “Leadership Training: Empowering You for
Today’s World” at Midreshet Lindenbaum. Jennifer received her master’s
degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and
graduated from Columbia University, Magna Cum Laude. Jennifer, an alumna
of Midreshet Lindenbaum, is a founder and inaugural scholar of the four-year,
certificate granting International Halakha Scholars Program of Ohr Torah
Stone. She serves as a teacher and leadership coach at the Orthodox Leadership
Project, she is a trained facilitator for the organization Resetting the Table,
which builds dialogue and deliberation across political divides, and she is a
trained educator for the Matan Bat Mitzvah program. Jennifer previously served
as the Washington DC Director at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North
America. Her articles and Divrei Torah have appeared in academic journals and
in online Jewish learning forums. Jennifer is married to Dr. Mordechai Raskas
and together they are raising four children.
