Dr. Rabbi Avital Hochstein is President of Hadar Israel, a research fellow at Shalom Hartman Institute and a former Rosh Kollel at the Pardes Institute, all institutions at which she also teaches, primarily Talmud. She holds a Ph.D. in Talmud and Gender Studies from Bar-Ilan University, and received ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes, as well as from the Beit Midrash Le'Rabanut Yisraelit. She is co-author of The Place of Women in Midrash (Yedioth Ahronoth 2008). She published a weekly online Parashat HaShavua and is a founder of Kehilat Shirah Hadashah in Jerusalem.