Whoever said that women are not leaders in the Charedi world has never heard about the Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT). The college, founded in 1969 as a scientific institution for Torah-observant Jews, has 3,800 students, about a third of whom are Charedim.
“It was very important to us that we open our doors to that world,” professor Noah Dana-Picard, who is president of the college, said to me earlier this week on one of his periodic visits to Los Angeles to help raise JCT’s profile. “They have unique talents because of their talmudic background, and we believe they can make major contributions to Israel in the scientific area.”
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