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1. jwa.org › encyclopedia › articleSarah Schenirer - Jewish Women's Archive

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   Jun 23, 2021 · Sarah Schenirer, a divorced dressmaker who lived in Krakow, Poland, was the founder of Bais Yaakov, a network of schools for Orthodox girls. By the time she died in 1935, the school she founded in 1917 had grown to hundreds of schools in Poland and beyond.

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2. gospelhb.com › james-clevelandWhat Really Happened to James Cleveland? - GOSPELHB

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   James Cleveland, the “Crown Prince of Gospel,” left an indelible mark on the world of gospel music. His powerful voice and inspiring compositions touched the hearts of millions. But behind the scenes of his remarkable career were struggles, controversies, and triumphs that defined his journey.

3. sarasch.com › history-of-sara-schenirerHistory of Sara Schenirer - Sara Schenirer Institute

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   Sara Schenirer: One Woman’s Impact on the World. July 15, 1883 – March 1, 1935. A Polish-Jewish schoolteacher born on July 15, 1883, Sara Schenirer became a pioneer of Jewish education for girls.

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   One hundred years ago, Sarah Schenirer changed female Jewish education forever. She merged tradition and women's rights in Orthodox Judaism.

5. jewishaction.com › jewish-world › peopleA Traditional Revolutionary: Sarah Schenirer’s Legacy Revisited

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   On a brisk Tuesday morning in March of 2015, over 14,000 women and girls gathered together in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center from all over North America—with many more watching via satellite hook-up. They came to commemorate the life of a woman they had never met, but who impacted their lives profoundly.

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   James Edward Cleveland (December 5, 1931 – February 9, 1991) was an American gospel singer, musician, and composer. Known as the "King of Gospel," Cleveland was a driving force behind the creation of the modern gospel sound by incorporating traditional black gospel, soul, pop, and jazz in arrangements for mass choirs.

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   Who is Sarah Schenirer?

   • As the founder of the Bais Ya’akov educational movement, Sarah Schenirer brought about a revolution in the status of women in Orthodox Judaism.

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   Did Sarah Schenirer remarry?

   • Schenirer remarried near the end of her life but had no children. Bais Yaakov girls in her lifetime and afterward called her “Our Mother Sarah,” and she continues to be venerated and commemorated by the movement she founded. This drawing served as a representation of Sarah Schenirer in the interwar period, in the absence of a photo.

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   Who were Sarah Schenirer and Bais Yaakov?

   • Sarah Schenirer became more than her students’ teacher, she became their rebbe and Bais Yaakov their Chassidut. Like Schenirer, most of the Polish Bais Yaakov students were Chassidic, and Bais Yaakov provided them with the active role in religious life that they had previously been missing.

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   How did Sara Schenirer respond to a need in the Jewish community?

   • “Sara Schenirer perceived a need in the Jewish community and responded to it. She understood that opportunities for secular education for women were plentiful, but for Jewish education they were virtually non-existent,” explained Rabbi Elazar Meisels, current dean of the institution.

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   How did Sarah Schenirer die?

   • Schenirer died of cancer on March 1, 1935, at the age of 51. By the time of her death, Sarah Schenirer, a divorced seamstress with no formal degrees or status in either the religious or secular realm, had seen her dream embodied in a worldwide movement crediting with rescuing Orthodoxy at a moment of great peril. Portrait of Sarah Schenirer.

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   How did Sarah Schenirer and Bais Yaakov impact Jewish education?

   • The story of Sarah Schenirer and Bais Yaakov suggests that the more girls and women are introduced to high-level secular studies and secular ideologies, the more compelling, challenging and rigorous their Jewish education needs to be. In addition to education, Bais Yaakov offered women leadership opportunities that have enhanced Orthodoxy.

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   Jun 19, 2020 · How were the first Jewish girls who attended the institution Sarah Schenirer had founded related to the group of girls I had run into that afternoon? Who was Sarah Schenirer, and how had she helped create this new type of young Jewish woman, who in turn remembered (and misremembered) her?