Bat Sheva Marcus

Bat Sheva Marcus, PhD is one of the founders and the Clinical Director of The Medical Center for Female Sexuality. The Center, founded in 2000, is dedicated to helping women with a wide variety of sexual issues and has three centers in New York, in Westchester, NYC and Great Neck. Bat Sheva earned her PhD in Human Sexuality at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Marcus also holds a master’s degree in social work from Columbia University as well as a master’s degree in public health and a master’s degree in Jewish Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary. Bat Sheva is a founding member and President of JOFA and has sat on the board of directors for 18 years. She is a coordinator of her partnership minyan in Riverdale, Shachar and was past chair of the Women’s Tefillah Network. She has lectured internationally on women’s issues and has been a guest on numerous radio and television shows including CBS News, News 12 Westchester. She has been written up many times in New York Times, Time Magazine and Westchester Magazine as well as a myriad of local publications.


Articles by Bat Sheva Marcus

One Small Sound for Women, One Large Blast for Womankind.

On the first day of Rosh Hashana I was invited to call the kolot (sounds) for the shofar. I must ...

Confronting Mikveh with Honesty

There have been numerous conversations recently about mikveh, tzniut, niddah, and sexual relationships within the Orthodox community. They have spanned ...

One Student’s Ordination Affects Us All

Yeshiva University’s recent decision to withhold semicha (rabbinic ordination) from one of its about-to-graduate rabbis because of his participation in ...

VIDEO: Ruth Calderon: A Familiar Voice, from Israel

Many wonderful things happened at last week’s JOFA Conference. But the highlight for me was Israeli Knesset member Ruth Calderon’s impromptu ...

Women’s Tefillah Movement

How Orthodox women found a halakhic way to be involved in services.