Dr. Michal Raucher

Dr. Michal Raucher is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her research focuses on reproduction, religious authority, and gender among Jews in America and Israel/Palestine. Raucher is the author of “Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women” (Indiana, 2020). Her second book, The New Rabbis, an ethnography of women rabbis in American Orthodoxy, is under contract with NYU Press. Dr. Raucher is a Primary Investigator on two studies exploring the intersection of religious identity and abortion in America. She has interviewed over 100 Jews who have had abortions in the United States. She is the co-editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and a past president of the Society of Jewish Ethics.