Dr. Anna Urowitz-Freudenstein received both her Ph.D. in Midrash and her M.A. in Ancient Judaism from the Jewish Theological Seminary. Her dissertation investigated the workings of Midrash focusing on texts that mention individual women. She has taught university courses both in person and on line and was a contributor to The Torah: A Women's Commentary. She currently teaches at TanenbaumCHAT, where her students know her as Dr. U-F and she is Head of the Department of Jewish Thought. Among the courses has developed and taught re "Gender and Judaism" and "Empowered: The Strength of Women in Jewish History". Dr. Urowitz-Freudenstein lives in her hometown, Toronto, with her husband and family.
