{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Uri L'Tzedek: Orthodox Social Justice","title":"The Theological and the Political: The High Court Petition on Women's Right to Equal Access to the Rabbinate Examinations, and What Comes Next","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3731,"description":"Rabbanit Sarah Segal-Katz received rabbinic ordination from Beit Morasha (2016); Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis — a joint program of the Shalom Hartman Institute and HaMidrasha at Oranim (2024); and Yeshivat Maharat (2025). She holds an MA in Jewish Thought from Hebrew University's Revivim program (2005). She founded the Gluya Center (2010) and the Gluya Magazine website (since 2020), an online knowledge center featuring over 3,000 texts on Jewish life. Since October 7th, the site has published hundreds of coping resources and multiple anthologies. She has been providing life-cycle mentoring for women and couples for more than 17 years, and has published dozens of guidance articles on the subject. She has published research on din hargasha - examining the question of trusting women's reports about their own bodies, drawing on data from more than 1,400 Israeli women - as well as an ethnographic article, co-authored with Prof. Tsipy Ivry, on the tension between religion and public health in mikvaot during the pandemic.\nShe has edited more than ten anthologies, publishes scholarly articles, op-eds, poetry, and prayers in journals and the Israeli press. \nShe is one of six petitioners in a landmark Israeli Supreme Court case — filed by ITIM, the Rackman Center, and Kolech — that opened the Chief Rabbinate's halakhic certification exams to women.\nShe headed Kolech's department for the prevention of sexual assault. Together with Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum, she co-founded Brit Emunim and the Dinah Partnership, a coalition advancing safeguarding and sexual harm prevention in Jewish communal spaces.\nShe co-founded Forum Advot to pioneer discussions about mikveh rights in Israel, and co-founded Tovlot BeNachat, a Facebook community of 10,000+ women advocating for unattended ritual immersion. She served as a balanit (mikveh attendant) for 11 years.\nRabbanit Sarah, a native Jerusalemite, currently lives with her family in Riverdale, New York\nAbout Rabba Daphne Lazar Price ...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/oXbmTa8Ta1CMbGPk-at-zngFEM4lrXVM2zvwrXDida8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMwNTgxLzE2NTE1/MjU3MTUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}