Wendy Amsellem

Wendy Amsellem is an American Orthodox Jewish educator and one of the women ordained by Yeshivat Maharat, the first yeshiva in North America to ordain women as orthodox religious leaders. She teaches Talmud and Halakha at Yeshivat Maharat and directs its Beit Midrash Program, a joint program with Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. She uses the rabbinic title Rabba.

Education Amsellem holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and Literature from Harvard University. She is an alumna of the Drisha Scholars Circle at the Drisha Institute, and was both a Wexner Graduate Fellow and a Mandel Jerusalem Fellow. She received semikha from Yeshivat Maharat in 2018.

Career Amsellem teaches Talmud and Halakha at Yeshivat Maharat and directs the Beit Midrash Program.