Rahel Berkovits is a senior lecturer in Mishnah, Talmud, and halakhah at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, where she has been teaching for almost twenty years. She writes articles and lectures widely both in Israel and abroad on topics concerning women and Jewish law. Rahel is a founding member of Congregation Shira Hadasha, a halakhic partnership synagogue, and she serves on their halakhah committee. In June 2015, Raĥel received rabbinic ordination from Rabbis Herzl Hefter and Daniel Sperber.