Michal Raucher is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. 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 recently completed her second book, The New Rabbis, an ethnography of women rabbis in American Orthodoxy.