Shayna Goldberg joined Rinat as Yoetzet Halacha in June of 2007.
The goals of this important post for our membership and the broader Bergen County community is:
- To encourage women to feel comfortable asking all of their questions in Hilchot Niddah in a way that also enables them to share all of the relevant details.
- To give a woman not only a specific response to the issue she is dealing with at that moment but to give her the guidance and general advice that will help her get from Point A to Point B in dealing with her overall situation at the present time and in the future.
- To provide education through shiurim, lectures, and long one on one phone calls so that women understand Hilchot Niddah, feel more in control of what is happening to them and are therefore better equipped to ask good questions.
- To engender positive feelings about the laws of Taharat Hamishpacha, the sensitivity of Rabbanim and how the halachic system works so that couples can observe these laws with greater commitment and less resentment.
Shayna welcomes your questions -- anyone in the community should feel free to contact her privately or through the website. As of 8/16/09, Shayna has received 1214 calls since she began working for Congregation Rinat Yisrael. She fields questions from the greater Englewood, Teaneck and Bergenfield Jewish communities as well as from outside of Bergen County from people who have heard of the Yoetzet initiative through relatives and friends.