Ms. Bracha Rutner is a passionate Head of School at Central/YUHSG and teaches Gemara. She hopes to inspire her students to share in her love for Torah, Halacha and dedication to the Jewish community and Israel. Ms. Rutner also serves as the Yoetzet Halakha at the Kemp Mill Synagogue in Silver Spring, MD, combining her passion for helping others and her commitment to Halacha. As a graduate of Stern College for Women and Nishmat’s Keren Ariel Women’s Halakhic Institute in Jerusalem, with a masters degrees in Education Administration from St. John’s University and having done graduate work in Talmud from Hebrew University, she is devoted to educating the next generation of young women. She and her husband are educating and bringing up four children in West Hempstead, NY.