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.She has edited more than ten anthologies, publishes scholarly articles, op-eds, poetry, and prayers in journals and the Israeli press. She 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. She 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. She 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. Rabbanit Sarah, a native Jerusalemite, currently lives with her family in Riverdale, New York About Rabba Daphne Lazar Price Rabba Daphne Lazar Price is a rabbi, educator, writer, and nonprofit leader whose work focuses on Jewish leadership, Orthodox feminism, Israel engagement, and the intersection of Jewish tradition and contemporary life. Ordained by Yeshivat Maharat in 2025 as one of the institution’s first 100 graduates, Daphne most recently served as Executive Director of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA), where she led initiatives advancing women’s Torah learning, spiritual leadership, and communal participation. Among her signature accomplishments was helping launch the Devorah Scholars initiative, which supported Orthodox synagogues across North America in hiring women for paid spiritual leadership positions. Prior to JOFA, Daphne spent seventeen years at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and has also held leadership roles with the Shalom Hartman Institute and West End Strategy Team. She currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches Jewish Law. A frequent speaker and published writer, Daphne’s work has appeared in The Times of Israel, eJewishPhilanthropy, and JTA. Raised in a Chabad-Lubavitch family in Toronto, she brings a lifelong commitment to Torah, Zionism, Jewish peoplehood, and building communities that are both deeply rooted in tradition and responsive to the challenges of the modern world. Daphne lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with her husband, David, and is the proud mother of two daughters and a son-in-law. -- STAY CONNECTED WITH URI L’TZEDEK: 🔗 All Socials: https://linktr.ee/utzedek 🖥️ Website: https://utzedek.org 📰 Newsletter: https://utzedek.org/subscribe 🎁 Donate: https://utzedek.org/donate
