She was the founder of the first college for Haredi students in Jerusalem, and has spent years working to overcome gender discrimination in the Orthodox Jewish community.

At eighteen, she married Rabbi Ezra Bar-Shalom, then taught sewing, and opened a fellowship for young brides for several years.

[3] The college's programming and degrees are provided by Israeli academic institutions such as Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Bar-Ilan University and others, but the study takes place in a strictly gender-segregated environment, with schedules and childcare arrangements to enable students to uphold traditional Haredi expectations of Torah study for men and motherhood for women.

[5][6] Bar-Shalom regularly speaks about the importance of women's education and work, and in 2013 supported a women's-only political party in the Haredi town of El'ad.

In 2013, Bar-Shalom was selected by Nashim magazine, part of the Makor Rishon newspaper, as one of the twenty most influential religious women in Israel.