Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

Szold begged the school’s president Solomon Schechter to allow her to study he did only with the provision that Henrietta Szold not seek ordination. In 2007 Szold was inducted into the American National Women's Hall of Fame. Her commitment to Zionism was heightened by a trip to Palestine in 1909.

S. Henrietta Szold (December 21 1860 – February 13 1945) was a U.