Rabbanit Dr. Renana Ravitzky-Pilzer is the Director of the Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis – Rabbanut Yisraelit and a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute.
She previously served as Educational Director of the Center for Jewish and Israeli Identity, Head of the Beit Midrash at the Midrashiya High School for Girls, and Co-Director of the Melamdim Program – a master’s degree program for training teachers of Jewish studies from Israel and the United States, in collaboration with the Shalom Hartman Institute and Tel Aviv University.
She is a graduate of the Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis – Rabbanut Yisraelit as well as of the Institute’s Maskilot program. Her academic field is Jewish thought and midrash, and she earned her PhD from Bar-Ilan University in the Gender Studies Program, where her dissertation explored ideological approaches to circumcision in rabbinic literature.
Renana previously held teaching, management, and program coordination positions at the Beit Midrash “Elul.” She is one of the founders and leaders of the Shira Hadasha community in Jerusalem. She is married to Manny and is a mother of four.
