Biography

A graduate of the Matan’s M.A. Program in Tanakh, Rachel Adelman went on to complete her PhD in Hebrew Literature (with a specialty in midrash) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  In 2007/8,  she was the Ray D. Wolfe post-doctoral fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto.   She has taught Tanakh and Midrash at Matan (the Sadie Rennert Women’s Institute for Torah Study), in Jerusalem, and lectures widely abroad, in North America and England.  She is currently a visiting assistant professor of ancient Hebrew Literature and Rabbinics at Miami University in Ohio.

She also writes a regular column for the Jerusalem Post called “Kol Isha”.

When she is not writing divrei Torah, articles, or books, it is poetry that flows from her pen.  Much of the year she spends on a lovely dead-end street in Jerusalem with her husband and four children.