Rabba Dr. Anat Sharbat serves as part of the clergy team at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. She is a CLI fellow. Dr. Sharbat graduated from Bar-Ilan University with an M.A. cum laude and a Ph.D. in Talmud from Bar Ilan University, focusing on questions of sexuality and holiness in rabbinic literature. Rabba Sharbat received her ordination from Yeshivat Maharat and served on the rabbinic faculty of Hebrew Institute of Riverdale - The Bayit. After eleven years in New York, she returned to Tel Aviv with her family and is currently founding "Shalom Aleichem - Kehila Ivrit" - a community based in central Tel Aviv. She is one of the Community Coordinators at Hadar in Israel.