{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"(35) Yoetzet Halacha and Community Scholar \u2013 Ruthie Braffman Shulman","description":"Ruthie Braffman Shulman is passionate about the importance of women\u2019s roles in Torah Leadership positions, and she currently serves as the Director of Women's Torah Leadership at Micah Philanthropies, where she develops and supports women in Torah leadership positions at shuls. Simultaneously, she is the Yoetzet Halacha and community scholar at Young Israel of West Hartford CT.   Ruthie studied at Sha\u2019alvim for Women and Yeshiva University\u2019s Stern College and earned an M.A. in Talmud at Yeshiva University\u2019s Graduate Program for Advanced Talmudic Studies for Women (GPATS). She is also trained and certified as a Yoetzet Halacha.   Ruthie has nearly twenty years of experience in community leadership and Torah education, having worked at institutions such as United Orthodox Synagogues of Houston, Manhattan Jewish Experience, OU-JLIC at University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University.   She resides in Philadelphia with her husband and four children.   Here is the link to our Survey of Orthodox Jewish Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, available online through June 18, 2025: http:\/\/bit.ly\/marriage-divorce-2025.  ","author_name":"The Orthonomics Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/398120","html":"