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Midreshet Lindenbaum (Hebrew: מדרשת לינדנבאום), originally named Michlelet Bruria, is an Orthodox midrasha in Talpiot, Jerusalem. It counts among its alumnae many of the teachers at Matan, Nishmat, Pardes and other women's and co-ed yeshivas in Israel and abroad.

History

Michlelet Bruria was founded in 1976 by Rabbi Chaim Brovender, as the woman's component of Yeshivat Hamivtar. At Bruria, as in a traditional men's yeshiva, women studied in hevrutot (a traditional Jewish system of partner-based religious study) and learned Talmud as well as advanced Tanakh. In 1986, Bruria merged with Ohr Torah Stone Institutions and was renamed "Midreshet Lindenbaum" after Belda and Marcel Lindenbaum.

Programs

Midreshet Lindenbaum offers a certificate in "Halachik leadership" (Hebrew: מנהיגות הלכתית), a five-year course in advanced studies in Jewish law, with examinations equivalent to the rabbinate's ordination requirement for men. It also runs a Torah study program for developmentally disabled young men and women known as Midreshet / Yeshivat Darkaynu.

The midrasha has been a leader in developing women's role in rabbinical courts in Israel and in founding the first school dedicated to training women to serve as advocates in rabbinical courts, known as Toanot Rabniyot. Lindenbaum also operates a legal aid center and hotline which has taken an active role in advocating for a resolution to the Agunah problem.

See also

• Maharat
• Beit Midrash Har'el

References

1. El Or, Tamar (2002). Next Year I Will Know More: Literacy and Identity among Young Orthodox Women in Israel. Translated by Watzman, Haim. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-2772-2.
2. ^ Furstenberg, Rochelle. "The Flourishing of Higher Jewish Learning for Women". Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 1 May 2000.
3. Ross, T. (2006). A Bet Midrash of her own: Women’s contribution to the study and knowledge of torah. Study and knowledge in Jewish thought, 309-58.
4. About Midreshet Lindenbaum Archived 2007-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
5. המכון-למנהיגות-הלכתית
6. "Their enthusiasm is contagious, The Jewish Week, October 12, 2005". Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved October 10, 2007.
7. Midreshet Darkaynu
8. "Home". darkaynu.org.il.
9. The Monica Dennis Goldberg School for Women Advocates
10. Women Advocates Make Their Mark, Jewish Action, 2004
11. Max Morrison Legal Aid/Yad Lalsha Archived 2007-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
12. "Divorcing the Courts". Jerusalem Post, Dec 28, 2006, p. 5

Further reading

• Tamar Ross, "Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism" Brandeis University Press, 2004. ISBN 1-58465-390-6

External links

• Official website

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