Chen Artzi Sror

Director, Mandel Program for Leadership in Jewish Culture

​Chen Artzi Sror is a journalist, educator, social entrepreneur, and the director of the Mandel Program for Leadership in Jewish Culture. She is a columnist in the weekend supplement of the Yedioth Ahronoth daily newspaper, where she focuses on Israeli society. Additional topics at the heart of her writing include culture and Jewish culture, politics, and women's rights. Chen is a content producer and television and radio host, served in the armed forces at the IDF radio station Galei Tzahal, and held managerial and editing positions at Yedioth Ahronoth. She is the author of The New Religious Women: When Religious Feminism Meets Social Media (Yedioth Books, Hebrew), which tells the story of Orthodox feminist women and the trailblazing role they are playing in the religious Zionist community through their online activities. Chen is a graduate of the Ofakim honors program at Tel Aviv University, where she specialized in teaching Jewish philosophy, and is a graduate of Cohort 3 of the Mandel Program for Leadership in Jewish Culture.