1944 CE · Modern · Nishmat (Jerusalem, Yo'atzot)
Chana Henkin (b. 1944) is the founder and Dean of Nishmat, the Jeanie Schottenstein Center for Advanced Torah Study for Women in Jerusalem, and the architect of the Yo'atzot Halacha (Halachic Advisors) program — the first institutional pathway for Orthodox women to attain expertise and recognized authority in the laws of niddah (family purity).
Born in Brooklyn and educated at Brooklyn College, she made aliyah in 1972 and founded Nishmat in 1990. The Yo'atzot program, launched in 1997 with the endorsement of leading Modern Orthodox poskim, addresses the long-standing reality that many Jewish women hesitated to bring intimate questions before a male rabbi; today hundreds of certified Yo'atzot serve communities across Israel and the diaspora. Henkin has reshaped the boundaries of women's religious leadership within Modern Orthodoxy without breaking with the halachic process.
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Nishmat (Jerusalem, Yo'atzot) · 1997
Founder of the Yo'atzot Halacha program — the first Orthodox institutional pathway for women's halachic expertise in family purity.
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