Dr. Channa Pinchasi is a Research Fellow in the Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. She is the Director of the Maskilot program and guides research teams at the Center for Judaism and the State Policy. Channa was the Deputy Director of Be’eri and Director of the Be’eri School for Teacher Education at the Institute for 7 years.
She received her PhD in gender studies from Bar-Ilan University, where her thesis offered a feminist interpretation of Midrash Eicha Rabba, and was a member of the inaugural graduating class of Maskilot.
From 2001-2004, Channa was a representative of the Education Department of the Jewish Agency in Canada. Upon returning to Israel, she founded and led the Cheder Mishelach forum for influential female leaders in Israeli society to learn about the challenges that feminism poses to Jewish life today. Along with academic writing and extensive educational work, Channa is also engaged in journalistic writing.
She lives in Jerusalem with her family.