Matty Burnhart, Knitted News14.02.22 08:54 13 Adar A. Tishpev
Credit: Torah and Labor Trustees Movement
Rebbetzin Dr. Naomi Cohen, a researcher in Jewish thought and a pioneer of religious feminists in Israel, died at the age of 92. The Rebbetzin was the widow of Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen.
“We mourn the passing of Rebbetzin Dr. Naomi Cohen, a wise-hearted, educated woman and a scholar,” the statement said on behalf of the Torah and Avodah Trustees Movement. She was a researcher in Jewish thought and Jewish history and one of the religious feminist pioneers in Israel. The widow of Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen. R.I.P”.
Immigrated to Israel after the establishment of the state
Cohen was born in 1930 in New York, the youngest daughter of Rabbi Dr. Chaim Shimshon (Herbert) Goldstein, who was president of the Rabbinical Association of America. She immigrated to Israel in 1949 and studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. , And in 1953 the two married.
The pioneer of religious feminism
Rebbetzin Cohen was, as mentioned, a pioneer of religious feminists in Israel, and was active in various frameworks to promote the status of women. In the 1950s she founded the circle of young women of the Amen movement (which later merged with the Emuna movement) and for years headed it, first as chairman and then as president. She was also a member of the national board of Emuna. She was a member of the founding management of the Women’s Lobby, among the founders of the Women’s Academic Organization and a member of the Torah and Labor Trustees movement. Participated in the founding conference of the Kolach organization, and was attached to the organization’s first board of directors.
In 1975 she moved to Haifa after her husband was appointed the Ashkenazi rabbi of the city. She was one of the founders of the “Women’s Lobby” branch in Haifa. In 1978, she established a women’s circle in Haifa for the study of the Talmud, which continues to this day. She herself would teach the lessons which include studying selected chapters and tractates from the Babylonian Talmud. In 1982, she was also awarded the “Haifa Model Woman”.
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