Belda lindenbaum biography of rory

In 2009, when Rabbi Weiss and I founded Yeshivat Maharat, the first institution to ordain Orthodox women as clergy, there was only one person who we knew would be crazy enough to dream with us. I went to see Belda, to ask for seed funding.

I was nervous. Having only just been ordained myself, I was not a fundraiser.

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So I took Rabbi Jeff Fox, our Rosh Yeshiva, along with me. We sat together and talked about an Orthodox Jewish community where men and women could be partners in spiritual leadership. Then, Rabbi Fox asked her for a gift. Belda looked directly at me with those beautiful eyes lined with laugh lines and said, “I will give you what you asked for.

But, Sara, this is the last time that a man will ask on your behalf. Find the courage, hold your head up high, and ask.” That was Belda.

Belda once wrote: “My mother, myself, and my two daughters represent the ‘chuthameshulash,’ the threefold chain that cannot be broken, that chain of feminist thought and action which will ext