Rabbi Yuval Cherlow is Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Amit Orot Shaul in Israel. He is a graduate of Yeshivat Har Etzion, ordained by the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, a retired major in the IDF, and a founding member of the non-profit rabbinical organization Tzohar. He has published many books and articles on topics in halakha, biblical exegesis, modern Jewish philosophy, and contemporary questions, and writes an online “Ask the Rabbi” column containing over 65,000 responsa on various issues. Rabbi Cherlow is a member of various Israeli governmental ethical committees and of the Presidential Press Council of Israel. He is a sought-after speaker in academic circles, public panels, and the media.

Dr. Christine A. Ryan is a human rights lawyer and scholar who directs LRRP’s groundbreaking work at the intersection of religious liberty and reproductive rights. Christine is a leading expert on legal and movement strategies for abortion rights in the U.S. and abroad.  Christine joined Columbia from the Global Justice Center (GJC), a women's rights non-profit in New York, where she served as Legal Director. Among other projects at GJC, Christine co-led a campaign for a new UN treaty on Crimes against Humanity, produced large-scale reporting on the human rights impacts of U.S. abortion restrictions, and pursued accountability for international crimes. Before that, she served as Senior Legal Advisor and Director of Programs to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief where she completed human rights investigations in 8 different counties. Christine has also worked on human rights in Iran, LGBT rights, and human rights approaches to international development. Christine began her legal career as a human rights advisor to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade. A scholar of gender, human, and constitutional rights, Christine completed her doctorate in law at Duke University School of Law as a Fulbright Scholar. She holds an LLM from University College London and a Bachelor of Laws and Irish from University College Cork. She is a member of the Religions for Peace Standing Commission and an Associate Expert at the Religion and Equality Project, at the University of Essex.
 

Dr. Michal Raucher is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where she teaches courses on religion and reproduction, women and gender in religion, and Israel/Palestine. Her research focuses on women in contemporary Judaism, reproductive ethics, and religious authority. Raucher is the author of “Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women” (Indiana, 2020), an ethnography of Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish women’s reproductive ethics. She is writing her second book, The New Rabbis, an ethnography of women rabbis in American Orthodoxy. Dr. Raucher is a PI on two studies exploring the intersection of religious identity and abortion. She has interviewed over 100 Jews who have had abortions in America since 1973.  Dr. Raucher is the co-editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. She earned her PhD in Religious Studies from Northwestern University. She also has degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, The Jewish Theological Seminary, and Columbia University.

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