Denah Weinberg

Denah Weinberg is an Orthodox Jewish Rebbetzin and founder and dean of EYAHT College of Jewish Studies for Women in Jerusalem. EYAHT has over 2,000 alumnae. She is also a speaker on women's issues in Israel and abroad, and has published several essays in Jewish women's anthologies.

She is the widow of Rabbi Noah Weinberg, founder of Yeshivat Aish HaTorah.

Biography

Weinberg was born in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York to Albert and Esther Goldman. Albert was the youngest of eight children of Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Goldman, rabbi of Congregation Ohave Shalom in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and his wife, Dina. Weinberg had two sisters, Naomi and Judy, both of whom are deceased.

She married Noah Weinberg in New York in February 1958. They lived in Jerusalem, Israel and raised 8 sons and 4 daughters. One of their sons, Rabbi Hillel Weinberg, is the current rosh yeshiva of Aish HaTorah. She was widowed in 2009.

Founding EYAHT

After giving weekly classes to women in her Kiryat Sanz apartment for several years, in 1984, with seed money from Aish HaTorah, she opened the EYAHT college in two ground-floor apartments located across the street from her home. She named the college "EYAHT" (Hebrew: א.י.ה.ת.‎) by creating an acronym for the phrase, אשה יראת ה' היא תתהלל, Eesha Yirat Adonoy Hee Tithallal, "A woman who fears God, she shall be praised" (Proverbs 31:30).