Public lifeציפורה הלר

Tziporah Heller

Tziporah Heller is an American-born Haredi educator, author and speaker in Jerusalem, known for teaching at Neve Yerushalayim and lecturing on women in Judaism.

Teaching at Neve YerushalayimLectures on women in JudaismWeekly column in HamodiaBooks on Torah and spiritual growth

Occupation: writer, educator, rebbetzin, Judaic scholar
Education: Beis Yaakov Primary School, Neve Yerushalayim

The story of Tziporah Heller's life

Tziporah Heller was born Tziporah Krasner in Brooklyn, New York. She went to the Bais Yaakov elementary school. From 1966 to 1967 she studied at the Rav Wolf Seminary in Bnei Brak.

In 1967 she married Avraham Dovid Heller and the couple moved to Israel. They lived for 2 years in Segev in the Galilee, where they tried to set up a kollel. They then settled in Har Nof in Jerusalem, and her husband taught at Ohr Somayach and later ran Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok.

She began teaching at Neve Yerushalayim College for Women in 1970 and joined its full-time faculty in 1980. In 2015 she became principal of the Bnos Avigail seminary on the Neve campus. She teaches Bible and Jewish philosophy, with a focus on Rambam and Maharal, and lectures on women in Judaism.

She writes a weekly column for the Hamodia newspaper and lectures for the online college Naaleh. Her book This Way Up appeared in 2000, based on her columns. She tours abroad to speak twice a year, and was nominated in 2011 for the Jewish Community Heroes award.

She and her husband had 14 children. He died in 2013, and in 2020 she married Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb. In 2014 her son-in-law Shmuel Goldstein was seriously injured in the Jerusalem synagogue attack.