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Jul 24, 2025 • 6 min read

7 Jewish women

from history that you should know about

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
7 Jewish women
Ta'anit Asanath Barzani, by Lena Revenko, painted in a classical Persian figurative style. The Kurdish yeshiva head-- the most well-known of our 7-- sits on a raised podium, with a veil covering most but not all of her hair, looking at the viewer, pointing to a passage in an open book. Her students-- male, bearded, smaller, with turbans, sit around her, also with books open, listening.
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