Laurie Novick is Director and Head Writer of Deracheha: Women and Mitzvot, a halachic education website under the auspices of Yeshivat Har Etzion. 

She has taught at Nishmat and worked as a Yoetzet Halacha in the community and on yoatzot.org since her aliya seventeen years ago. 

Laurie is also a member of a pilot cohort of Yoatzot Halacha who have received advanced training in fertility issues and Halacha. 

She has degrees in Bible, Jewish Education, and Talmud and has done additional graduate work in Counseling, and lives with her husband, Rabbi Dr. Moti Novick,  and their children in Efrat.