A study evening in memory of Belda Kaufman Lindenbaum, who died in May, will take place on Monday, June 29, 2015, at Midreshet Lindenbaum in Jerusalem, to honor her contributions to Jewish study and advancing the role of women in Orthodox Judaism.
The Lindenbaum family sponsored several lecture series’ by the late Rabbi Prof. David Hartman in the 2000’s. Themes included "Talmudic & Contemporary Reflections on the Role of Women in Judaism," in 2005-2006, and "Morality Confronts the Halakhic Tradition: Rethinking the Traditional Perspectives on Women, Converts, and Non-Jews," in 2008-2009.
Rabba Sara Hurwitz, dean of Yeshivat Maharat in Riverdale and a participant in the Hartman Institute’s Rabbinic Leadership Initiative , was quoted as saying that Belda and Marcel Lindenbaum “changed the course of the modern Orthodox community by building Jewish institutions where women’s Torah scholarship, authority and leadership have become part of the fabric of the Jewish communal landscape.”
Read detailed articles about Belda Lindenbaum in the Jewish Week and JTA .
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