Ms. Bracha Rutner is Head of School at Central/YUHSG. She has a passion for Torah learning and hopes to inspire her students to share in that passion. Ms. Rutner also serves as the Yoetzet Halakha at the Kemp Mill Synagogue in Silver Spring, MD. She previously served as the Yoetzet at the Riverdale Jewish Center and the Riverdale Minyan. She has given numerous lectures on the interface of halacha and various women’s issues such as gynecology, infertility, women’s health, family dynamics and sexuality, and other halachic issues in communities across North America. She is the longest-serving congregational Yoetzet in the United States. Ms. Rutner is a graduate of Stern College for Women and completed her Yoetzet Halakha training in Nishmat’s Keren Ariel Women’s Halakhic Institute in Jerusalem.” Ms. Rutner has a masters degrees in Education Administration from St. John’s University and has graduate work in Talmud from Hebrew University. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Educational Administration at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration. She lives with her husband and four children in West Hempstead, NY.