Where Jewish Women Learn to Reach Their Potential
EYAHT College of Jewish Studies for Women is a multi-level study program for university and professional women from all backgrounds designed to maximize their potential.
Students learn how to integrate Torah into every aspect of their lives and become empowered to achieve personal greatness.
Founded by Rebbetzin Denah Weinberg, of blessed memory, EYAHT continues her legacy of empowering Jewish women to inspire other women across the globe. With classes in Hebrew and in English, an individualized schedule is built for each student based on availability, skill level, background and interest.
Students may also obtain college credits for completed coursework if necessary arrangements are made.
EYAHT’s Mission
EYAHT’s Mission is singular and simple:
To give women the opportunity, skills, knowledge and burning desire to make an educated decision as to how live their life Jewishly.
At EYAHT there is a strong focus on the uniqueness of the Jewish woman and her role in her family, community, and the world at large. Celebrating femininity and the strengths inherent in a woman are emphasized, as is the principle that philosophy and theory can be applied within one’s day-to-day living.
EYAHT’s flexible learning options and extraordinary teachers who understand the totality of the mission together empower and enable women to seek their own path with the necessary knowledge and tools to build a beautiful home and inspire others.
History
Rebbetzin Dena Weinberg, the wife of Aish HaTorah’s founder Rabbi Noach Weinberg, was inspired by all that her husband had done to revolutionize learning opportunities for young men with little Jewish background. Rabbi Weinberg had a clear vision for Aish HaTorah that did not include establishing a seminary or other programs for girls, so he asked Rebbetzin Weinberg to open it herself while promising that he would raise funds (separately) for her to do so.
She hatched a dream of her own to create a program for women, one that would manage to truly convey the special essence of a Jewish woman’s role in the Jewish people.
Rabbi Weinberg zt’l created EYAHT to empower women and make them leaders and powerful. Her view of life was that strong leadership and power begin at home, so the Jewish people as a whole would gain if we had an institution to strengthen Jewish women. In the following years, she expanded EYAHT’s programming to include short and long term programs, a variety of classes and tracks – all with her one mission in mind.
For many years, Rebbetzin Weinberg successfully ran EYAHT as a small school in an apartment in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Sanz. Through the tireless efforts of EYAHT student and supporter Bonnie Cohen, money was raised to finally build the new EYAHT building that opened its doors in?
While moving classes to exclusively online due to covid-19, EYAHT continues until today to take place with classes for women on line and in person, and now includes the successful Shiviti program for Israeli women.
There are many more plans to strengthen and develop as the EYAHT returns to full operations in its own beautiful building.