Yoetzet Halacha

Rivka Alter is a member of the Judaic studies faculty and twelfth grade dean at Yeshiva University High School for Girls (Central). She presently serves as a Yoetzet Halacha in the Riverdale, NY and Stamford, CT communities. Rivka is an experienced kallah teacher as well as a mentor for Nishmat’s kallah teacher training program. She frequently teaches adults and teens locally, on zoom, and for the OU Women’s Initiative. She is currently completing her EdD in Jewish education at YU’s Azrieli graduate school. Rivka lives in Bergenfield with her husband Daniel and their seven children.

Dr. Nechama Price is the Director of Yeshiva University’s Graduate Program for Advanced Talmud and Tanach Studies (GPATS) and teaches Tanach and Halacha at Stern College. Nechama received certification from GPATS, earned masters degrees from Azrieli Graduate School and Bernard Revel Graduate School, and an Ed.D from Azrieli Graduate School focusing her research on the impact of female Torah scholar role models on high school students. She is a certified Yoetzet Halacha, and currently serves as a Yoetzet Halacha (Halakhic Advisor) for the communities of Teaneck, Englewood, Tenafly, Livingston, West Orange, and Long Branch NJ. Nechama is the author of Tribal Blueprints, a Maggid imprint which analyzes the lives and personalities of the twelve tribes. Nechama is a community scholar and speaks all over North America.  She lives in Bergenfield, NJ with her husband & four children.