Nechama
Price
Director, Graduate Program in Advanced Talmud and Tanach Studies (GPATS) Senior Lecturer of Bible and Jewish Law, Stern College for Women
Dr. Nechama Price is the Director of Yeshiva University’s Graduate Program for Advanced Talmud and Tanach Studies (GPATS) and teaches Tanach and Halacha at Stern College. Nechama received certification from GPATS, earned masters degrees from Azrieli Graduate School and Bernard Revel Graduate School, and an Ed.D from Azrieli Graduate School focusing her research on the impact of female Torah scholar role models on high school students. She is a certified Yoetzet Halacha, and currently serves as a Yoetzet Halacha (Halakhic Advisor) for the communities of Teaneck, Englewood, Tenafly, Livingston, West Orange, and Long Branch NJ. Nechama is the author of Tribal Blueprints, a Maggid imprint which analyzes the lives and personalities of the twelve tribes. Nechama is a community scholar and speaks all over North America. She lives in Bergenfield, NJ with her husband & four children.
Tanach and Halacha (specifically women issues and hilchot nidda)
In 2009 and 2013 she was the recipient of the Lilian F. & William Silber Professor of the Year Award and selected as Outstanding Judaic Studies Teacher by the senior classes of 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2012, 2022 and 2023.
- Tribal Blueprints, 2020
- “The Significance of the Seemingly Insignificant”, YU’s Mitokh Ha-Ohel, Essays on the Weekly Parashah from the Rabbis and Professors of Yeshiva University, 2010
- “Like Father Like Son, Shishon and Manoach”, YU’s Mitokh Ha-Ohel, Essays on the Weekly Haftarah Reading from the Rabbis and Professors of Yeshiva University, 2011
- “Secret Identities”, YU’s Purim-To-Go, 2013
- “Splitting of the Seas, Take Two”, YU’s Pesach-To-Go, 2011
- “The Tale of the Ultimate Leader”, Ennoble and Enable, Essays in Honor of Richard M. Joel, 2018