The Queen of Kiruv     

Facilitated by Ariella Schiller

Born in Far Rockaway in 1936 to Albert and Esther Goldman, Denah stood out among the other Jewish children in that New York City neighborhood as a tzanuah and a determined shomeres Torah u’mitzvos. She married Rav Noach ztz”l in 1958, and they set out together to change the world, moving to Kiryat Sanz in Yerushalayim.

Rav Weinberg, born in the Lower East Side, was a great-grandson of the Yesod Ha’avodah, the first Slonimer Rebbe, as well as Rav Yaakov Loeberbaum, the Nesivos Hamishpat. His two siblings were Rav Yaakov ztz”l, the rosh yeshivah of Ner Yisroel in Baltimore, and Chava (Helene), the mother of Rav Shimshon Pincus ztz”l.

Rav Noach made eight attempts at kiruv, all of which failed to take off. Each time he accepted the loss and went straight back to the beis medrash. He knew his learning would bring him the clarity he sought. It was his ninth venture — Aish HaTorah, which he opened in 1974 — that stuck.

And it was Rebbetzin Denah who gave him the courage to not give up along the way.