Midreshet Lindenbaum
{{Short description|Women's seminary in Jerusalem}}
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| municipality = Talpiot, Jerusalem
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| founded_by = Rabbi Chaim Brovender
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Midreshet Lindenbaum ({{Langx|he|מדרשת לינדנבאום}}), originally named Michlelet Bruria, is an Orthodox midrasha in Talpiot, Jerusalem.{{cite book|url=https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/next-year-i-will-know-more|date=2002|last=El Or|first=Tamar|translator-first=Haim|translator-last=Watzman|title=Next Year I Will Know More: Literacy and Identity among Young Orthodox Women in Israel|publisher=Wayne State University Press|isbn=978-0-8143-2772-2|archive-date=2020-10-22|access-date=2020-09-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022004348/https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/next-year-i-will-know-more|url-status=live}} 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.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}
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.{{Cite web |last=Furstenberg |first=Rochelle |date=1 May 2000 |title=The Flourishing of Higher Jewish Learning for Women |url=http://www.jcpa.org/jl/jl429.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240124223127/https://www.jcpa.org/jl/jl429.htm |archive-date=24 January 2024 |access-date=10 October 2007 |website=Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs}}{{Cite book |last=Ross |first=T. |title=A Bet Midrash of her own: Women's contribution to the study and knowledge of torah |year=2006 |pages=309–58 |chapter=Study and knowledge in Jewish thought}} In 1986, Bruria merged with Ohr Torah Stone Institutions and was renamed "Midreshet Lindenbaum" after Belda and Marcel Lindenbaum.[http://www.lind.org.il/aboutus.htm About Midreshet Lindenbaum] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010024652/http://www.lind.org.il/aboutus.htm |date=2007-10-10 }}
Programs
Midreshet Lindenbaum offers a certificate in "Halachik leadership" ({{Langx|he|מנהיגות הלכתית}}), a five-year course in advanced studies in Jewish law, with examinations equivalent to the rabbinate's ordination requirement for men.[http://www.lind.org.il/%d7%94%d7%9e%d7%9b%d7%95%d7%9f-%d7%9c%d7%9e%d7%a0%d7%94%d7%99%d7%92%d7%95%d7%aa-%d7%94%d7%9c%d7%9b%d7%aa%d7%99%d7%aa/ המכון-למנהיגות-הלכתית ] It also runs a Torah study program for developmentally disabled young men and women known as Midreshet / Yeshivat Darkaynu.{{Cite web |date=October 12, 2005 |title=Their enthusiasm is contagious |url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/bottom/specialcontent.php3?artid=865 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005113243/http://www.thejewishweek.com/bottom/specialcontent.php3?artid=865 |archive-date=October 5, 2007 |access-date=October 10, 2007 |website=The Jewish Week}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.midreshet-lindenbaum.org.il/content.asp?PageId=32 |title=Midreshet Darkaynu |access-date=2008-01-21 |archive-date=2009-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090118074028/http://midreshet-lindenbaum.org.il/content.asp?PageId=32 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.darkaynu.org.il/ |title=Home |website=darkaynu.org.il |access-date=2018-06-25 |archive-date=2018-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707101818/http://www.darkaynu.org.il/ |url-status=live }}
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,[https://web.archive.org/web/20000226200747/http://www.lind.org.il/advocates.htm The Monica Dennis Goldberg School for Women Advocates]{{Cite web |url=http://www.ou.org/publications/ja/5765/5765winter/WOMENADV.PDF |title=Women Advocates Make Their Mark, Jewish Action, 2004 |access-date=2007-10-10 |archive-date=2007-10-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011091913/http://www.ou.org/publications/ja/5765/5765winter/WOMENADV.PDF |url-status=live }} 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.{{Cite web |title=Max Morrison Legal Aid/Yad Lalsha |url=http://www.legalaid.org.il/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005014411/http://www.legalaid.org.il/ |archive-date=2007-10-05 |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=}}{{Cite news |date=December 28, 2006 |title=Divorcing the Courts |url=http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1164881997293 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708062440/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1164881997293 |work=The Jerusalem Post |page=5|archive-date=8 July 2012 }}
See also
References
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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|http://www.midreshet-lindenbaum.org.il/}}
{{Orthodox yeshivas in Israel and the West Bank}}
{{Women rabbis}}
{{Women in Judaism}}
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Category:Modern Orthodox Judaism in Israel
Category:Orthodox Jewish schools for women
Category:Educational institutions established in 1976