Full Name 1938 Parent(s) Rita Kaufman (mother) | Spouse(s) Marcel Lindenbaum Died 2015 | |
Native name Baila Sara Bat Rivka V'Zeev Dov Board member of Ramaz School, Yeshivat Maharat, Yeshiva University Relatives Carol Kaufman Newman (sister), Judith Kaufman Hurwich (sister), Gerald Kaufman (brother), Nathan (son), Matthew (son), Bennett (son), Victoria Feder (daughter), and Abigail Lindenbaum Tambor (daughter) Organizations Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, Yeshivat Maharat, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, Ramaz School | ||
Belda Kaufman Lindenbaum was a co-founder of Midreshet Lindenbaum who helped support Jewish religious organizations.
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Background
Lindenbaum, her husband Marcel, and Shlomo Riskin co-founded Midreshet Lindenbaum, a post high school institute in Israel for students which combines service in the Israeli Defense Forces with religious studies.
In 2012 Terrence James Victorino wrote a book entitled Midreshet Lindenbaum about the formation of the school.
Lindenbaum and Marcel have also funded a series of lectures on the role of women in Judaism given by David Hartman at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Israel.
Lindenbaum served as a founding board member of Yeshivat Maharat, on the Board of Directors of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, a Board Member of Yeshiva University, President of the American Friends of Bar-Ilan University, a Board Member of Ramaz Day School, and a past President of the Drisha Institute of Jewish Education.
Family
Lindenbaum is the daughter of Rita and Benjamin Kaufman.
Lindenbaum has three siblings, Carol Kaufman Newman, Judith Kaufman Hurwich, and Gerald Kaufman.
Lindenbaum and her husband Marcel have five children, Nathan, Matthew, Bennett, Victoria Feder and Abigail Lindenbaum Tambor, and 18 grandchildren.
Lindenbaum and her husband were mentioned in Guide to U.S. Foundations, Their Trustees, Officers, and Donors.
JOFA
In 1999 Lindenbaum setrved as the Vice President of Development and sat on the Board of Directors of JOFA, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance.
Agunah Crisis
Lindenbaum commented on the Agunah crisis, “This is an issue that burns very deeply...There is no issue quite like agunot to make you second guess the ethical quality of the religion.”
Yeshivat Maharat
Lindenbaum was on the Board of Directors of Yeshivat Maharat, the first yeshiva to ordain women as Orthodox clergy, which strives to offer an exceptional education in Jewish law and pastoral counseling, preparing its graduates to inspire and lead Orthodox communities.
On June 2 of 2016 at Yeshivat Maharat’s Semikha Ceremony, hosted at Ramaz Lower School, Lindenbaum was mentioned by Rabba Sara Hurwitz in her “A Message from the Dean speech,” in which she commented “It has been over a year since Belda Lindenbaum zt’l passed away-- there have been many days that I hear her voice in my head. I only hope that we are succeeding in fulfilling her dream of a more open minded, yet committed Orthodox Judaism.”
Death
Lindenbaum died in 2015.