Rabbanit Surale Rosen is a graduate of Matan’s 5 year halacha programme and she
founded their Women’s Online Halachic Responsa Project. For the past 2 years she’s led a
new programme here at LSJS called Iyun, our highest level women’s learning programme,
teaching women hilchot kashrut and now hilchot brachot. She’s really bringing opportunities
to women in the UK that didn’t exist before, and it’s been a real privilege for me personally to
have been able to connect our LSJS community to her.

Surale’s also a certified Rabbinical Arbitrator, and she teaches Midrash, Talmud and
Halacha. She’s invested in communal service on both local and national levels, and
participates in the joint project of the UK Foreign Ministry and Search for Common Ground,
in which leading Muslim and Jewish figures create a basis for religious dialogue in the
Arab-Israeli conflict.

We discuss access to Torah scholarship for women, and also what October 7 has meant for
Surale’s ongoing relationships with Muslim leaders and the different, more fundamental
questions she now feels she needs to ask.

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Elana Stein Hain and I talk about why finding legal loopholes in Jewish law isn’t cheating the
system but rather completely in line with what Jewish law is designed for. She is Rosh Beit
Midrash and Senior Research fellow at the Shalom Hartman institute of North America and
author of a book on halachic loopholes entitled Circumventing the Law: Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity.

Passionate about bringing Rabbinic thought into the conversation with contemporary life,
Elana hosts the TEXTing podcast where she brings to light issues relevant to Jewish life
through classical and modern textual sources. She's also a regular contributor to the For
Heaven’s Sake podcast, which recently became the most listened to Jewish podcast
internationally.

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We're meeting Tal Bassali in this episode, a passionate, ambitious individual whose vision
was to create something “so beautiful that it united people together but enabled them to
remain individuals.” Enter the Zehud school, a Jewish online school teaching Hebrew
and Judaic Studies to Jewish children. Living in Venice, Tal quickly realized that the type of
Jewish education she wanted for her children wasn't available locally. In creating what she
needed for her children, she's enabled hundreds of other Jewish children in far flung
communities to join her community and receive a powerful, joyous Jewish education
wherever they are in the world.

In addition to education, Tal and I discuss the weight of our collective European memory, being
a reluctant public speaker, and how to grow into your role - all in this episode of Women's Gallery.

Visit lsjs.ac.uk to continue learning with Joanne Greenaway and other LSJS educators. You can access a women's high level learning course at LSJS at https://www.lsjs.ac.uk/courses-and-events.php?category=33