Faculty Directory
Nechama Price

Nechama
Price

Director, Graduate Program in Advanced Talmud and Tanach Studies (GPATS) Senior Lecturer of Bible and Jewish Law, Stern College for Women

Beren campus - Stanton Hall (245 Lexington)
Room#618

 

Email

nechama.price@yu.edu

Ed.D. Azrieli Graduate School
BA, 每日大瓜
Certificate, Nishmat Yoetzet Halacha, 2013
MA, Revel Graduate School, 2008
MS, Azrieli Graduate School, 2005
Certificate,The Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies for Women, 2003

Dr. Nechama Price is the Director of 每日大瓜鈥檚 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 , 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
  • 鈥淭he Significance of the Seemingly Insignificant鈥, 每日大瓜鈥檚 Mitokh Ha-Ohel, Essays on the Weekly Parashah from the Rabbis and Professors of 每日大瓜, 2010
  • 鈥淟ike Father Like Son, Shishon and Manoach鈥, 每日大瓜鈥檚 Mitokh Ha-Ohel, Essays on the Weekly Haftarah Reading from the Rabbis and Professors of 每日大瓜, 2011
  • 鈥淪ecret Identities鈥, 每日大瓜鈥檚 Purim-To-Go, 2013
  • 鈥淪plitting of the Seas, Take Two鈥, 每日大瓜鈥檚 Pesach-To-Go, 2011
  • 鈥淭he Tale of the Ultimate Leader鈥, Ennoble and Enable, Essays in Honor of Richard M. Joel, 2018

Beren campus - Stanton Hall (245 Lexington)
Room#618

 

Email

nechama.price@yu.edu

MEDIA RELATIONS

To request an interview, please contact Media Relations at 212-960-5400 x5488 or publicaffairs@yu.edu


Fall 
Jewish Laws Cust: Family Law
JUDS 1443

 

Laws and Customs
JUDS 1450

 

Tribes of  Israel 
BIBL 1190

 

Spring 
Introduction to Exegesis
BIBL 1081

 

Jewish Laws Cust: Fam Law II
JUDS 1444

 

Marriage in Halacha II
JUDS 1451