Anna Eisenstat Rimerman

Anna Eisenstat Rimerman grew up between the United States and Israel and studied in the women’s beit midrash in Migdal Oz before serving in the IDF. She was awarded the Amirim Scholarship to pursue her BA in Comparative Religion and Interdisciplinary Humanities from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. During her time at Hebrew University, Anna participated in the Van Leer Institute’s Research Group on Secularism and Religion and worked as an editor for the Hayo Haya History Journal. She studied at the Mabua Beit Midrash where she continues to serve as a member of their Jerusalem community leadership board.

Anna completed her Master’s in Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School with a concentration in Comparative Studies. While at Harvard, she served as the co-president of the Jewish Student Association Kehilla and focused on spiritual caregiving and chaplaincy training. Anna’s current research interests lie at the intersection of Disability Ethics and Theology in Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity.

Anna currently lives in Jerusalem while studying Talmud and Halakha at Lindenbaum, Migdal Oz, Mabua and Matan alongside interning at Beit Knesset Shir Chadash.