Yoetzet Halacha Shiffy Friedman graduated from Nishmat’s Miriam Glaubach Center’s U.S. Yoatzot Halacha Fellows Program in 2015. She counsels women in the area of women’s health and halacha, both through her roles as Yoetzet Halacha in Westchester County and Manhattan and through teaching brides and couples before marriage. Shiffy also teaches Talmud and Halacha at Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School in Teaneck, NJ. She received her B.A. in Judaic studies from Stern College and a dual M.A. in Education and Jewish studies from New York University. Prior to that, she spent a year studying in Israel at the Stella K. Abraham Beit Midrash for Women in Migdal Oz. She and her husband, Rabbi Noam Friedman, serve as the OU-JLIC couple at Columbia/Barnard Hillel, where they work to enhance Jewish life and learning on campus.