I am a senior lecturer at Olamot: The School of Jewish Studies and Israeli Culture at Bar-Ilan University. My research focuses on the social and cultural history of Jews in the Land of Israel during the first five centuries CE, with particular attention to rabbinic literature, the junctures of texts and material culture (epitaphs, architecture, mosaics), and the relationship between rabbinic sources and the Roman and Byzantine worlds. My first monograph, Poverty, Charity and the Image of the Poor in Rabbinic Texts from the Land of Israel, was published by Sheffield Phoenix Press (2014); an extended Hebrew version appeared from Hakibbutz Hameuchad in 2017. From 2015 to 2018, I was a researcher for the ERC project “Re-thinking Judaism's Encounter with the Roman Empire” at CNRS – Aix-Marseille University. From 2018 to 2019, I was a Research Associate at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2021 to 2022, I held a fellowship at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Since July 2025, I have been the Book Review Editor for Bible/Rabbinics at AJS Review. My current research focuses on the status of converts in rabbinic literature from the Land of Israel.