Micha’el Rosenberg

Micha’el Rosenberg is a member of the faculty at Hadar, an organization committed to empowering Jews to create and sustain vibrant, practicing, egalitarian communities of Torah, Avodah, and Hesed. Previously, Micha’el was an associate professor of Rabbinics at the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College, and before that he served as the rabbi of the Fort Tryon Jewish Center. He is the author of Signs of Virginity: Testing Virgins and Making Men in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2018), and the co-author with Rabbi Ethan Tucker of Gender Equality and Prayer in Jewish Law (Ktav, 2017). He has taught Bible, Talmud and halakhah in a variety of settings, including the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education, the National Havurah Institute, and the Northwoods Kollel and Beit Midrash of Ramah Wisconsin. An alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship program and Harvard College, he holds a doctorate in Talmud and Rabbinic literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary and rabbinical ordination from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.