Author: Rabba Shoshana Jakobovits

Rabba Shoshana Jakobovits' passions are texts and languages (both human and computer languages). She is a software engineer, occasionally a teacher, and consistently a wholehearted Jewish learner born in Geneva, Switzerland. She studied at Ein haNatziv, Hadar, and the Center for Modern Torah Leadership and is passionate about the places where life meets text, with a particular interest in the process of psak and halakha in general. She has been teaching Jewish thought in adult education settings and a high school after-school program as well as tutoring bnot mitzvah to lein Megilah and Torah. Shoshana holds a bachelor's in Physics from EPFL and a master's in Computational Science and Engineering from ETH Zurich. When she’s not in the Beit Midrash, Shoshana expresses her love for text by working as a software engineer in natural language processing at Google AI Research. Though she is dedicated to honing her skills in programming and machine learning, her heart beats for Jewish texts. She is fluent in English, French, Swiss/German and Hebrew. Shoshana lives in Zurich, Switzerland, where she and her family can be found spending time in the beautiful nature, singing, and debating about podcasts, articles, and answer to life, the universe, and everything.