Szold

In its early days the restaurant drew a steady stream of shoppers from Szold’s department store — now the City of Refuge Worship Center — across the street.

The seminary did not start ordaining women as rabbis until the mid-1980s, but Schwartz noted that it admitted the first woman to its academic programs in 1902: Henrietta Szold, founder of the Jewish women’s volunteer organization Hadassah, who took classes in advanced Jewish studies at a time when the rabbinical school was for men only.

The seminary did not start ordaining women as rabbis until the mid-1980s, but Schwartz noted that it admitted the first woman to its academic programs in 1902: Henrietta Szold, founder of the Jewish women’s volunteer organization Hadassah, who took classes in advanced Jewish studies at a time when the rabbinic school was for men only.

������ is less known is that this situation is an important result of work in the early 1930s by Henrietta Szold, born and raised in Baltimore, the daughter of a rabbi.

Szold, an eminent Jewish scholar, writer and editor in the United States, visited Palestine in the early 1900s and was moved by the general poverty and lack of health care in the country.