Ronit Irshai is a lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the gender studies program at Bar Ilan University and a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman institute in Jerusalem.  Irshai was educated in the fields of Jewish Philosophy, Philosophy of law and Gender Studies. She was also trained in Talmud and rabbinic studies. Her research focuses on gender and Jewish Law (halakhah), philosophy of halakhah, religious feminism, bioethics, and feminist jurisprudence and its relation to Jewish law.