Ruchoma Shain

Ruchoma Shain (; 6 December 1914 – 16 March 2013) was an American-born rebbetzin, English teacher, and author. She is best known for her first book, All for the Boss, a biography of her father, Yaakov Yosef Herman, which she wrote in her late sixties. In detailing her father's life, she also describes Orthodox Jewish life in America in the early 1900s. In Jerusalem, she became a popular lecturer to women and girls. After the publication of her books, Shain received visitors seeking her counsel regarding various topics. which until then had concentrated on Torah and rabbinic literature. All for the Boss was revised and expanded in 2001, It was also translated into Yiddish. In 2010 a Ynet reporter called the book "one of the most read, talked about, and widely studied in the Haredi street". Shain went on to write four more books, drawing on her personal and teaching experiences.

About ten years before her death, she returned to the United States to be near her children in Adelphia, New Jersey, where she continued to welcome visitors. She died in 2013 in Lakewood Township, New Jersey.