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Orthodox Pioneer Belda
Lindenbaum Dies
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elda Lindenbaum, the co-founder
of the Midreshet Lindenbaum
women's seminary program in
Israel combining religious studies and
army service, and other programs to
advance Orthodox women, has died.
Lindenbaum, who, according to the
Jewish Women's Archive, "was driven by
the birth of her daughters to create new
opportunities for Jewish women and girls:'
died May 12 in her Manhattan home. She
was 76.
Lindenbaum was a vice president and
founding board member of the Jewish
Orthodox Feminist Alliance and a found-
ing board member of the New York-
based Yeshivat Maharat, which ordains
Orthodox Jewish woman. She joined her
husband, Marcel Lindenbaum, and Rabbi
Shlomo Riskin in founding Midreshet
Lindenbaum, a women's program of
rigorous religious studies in Jerusalem.
She also served as president of the board
of the Drisha Institute for women, presi-
dent of the American Friends of Bar-Ilan
University and a board member of Ramaz
Day School, all based in New York.
"Belda devoted her life, in addition to
Marcel and Belda Lindenbaum
her wholehearted commitment to Marcel
and her family, to being an indefatigable
advocate for women's rights to leadership
roles in the broader Jewish community
and for women's right to divorce in Jewish
law. She was deeply religious, and insisted
that her God of love and compassion
would not and could not allow women
Jewish Settlement Movement
Pioneer Dies At 80
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abbi Moshe Levinger,
considered the "father"
of the Jewish settle-
ment movement in Judea and
Samaria and frequently called
"the sheriff of Hebron," died at
80 on May 16 at Shaare Tzedek
Medical Center in Jerusalem,
where he was hospitalized for
the past few months.
Levinger was one of the
founders of the Council of
Jewish Communities in Judea,
Samaria and the Gaza Strip, as
it was known prior to Israel's
2005 disengagement from Gaza.
"His leaving on the eve of
Jerusalem Day and Hebron Day
symbolizes his spirit and the
great love he had for the entire
Rabbi Moshe Levinger
Land of Israel," said Malachi
Levinger, the rabbi's son, Israel
Hayom reported.
Levinger was born in
Jerusalem in 1935. In 1968,
seeking to revive the historic
Jewish presence in Hebron, he
led a group of Jews that includ-
ed Hanan Porat and Eliyakim
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eve and held a seder in the
Park Hotel. That Hebron seder
became a symbol of the settle-
ment movement when the
group announced it was staying
in the city.
"Rabbi Levinger's name
will be forever linked with
the movement for renewed
Jewish settlement in Hebron
and other areas of the country
where our patriarchs walked
thousands of years ago. He was
an outstanding example of a
generation that sought to real-
ize the Zionist dream, in deed
and in spirit, after the Six-Day
War," Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu wrote in a
condolence letter to Levinger's
family.
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to be held captive to their husbands, or
aspire to be less than worthy scholars in
the classical literature of our tradition,"
Riskin, who is chief rabbi of the West
Bank settlement Efrat, said in a statement.
"Belda, together with Marcel, changed
the course of the modern Orthodox
community by building Jewish institu-
tions where women's Torah scholarship,
authority and leadership have become
part of the fabric of the Jewish communal
landscape. Her vision and tireless efforts
on behalf of the Jewish people were driven
by a love for Torah that is fair and just:'
said Rabba Sara Hurwitz, dean of Yeshivat
Maharat, in a statement.
Lindenbaum is survived by her hus-
band, five children, 21 grandchildren and
two siblings.3
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