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SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY ISSUEFROM BET MIDRASH TO BET MISHPATAny desperate parent who kidnaps his or her own child and flees to a foreign land inevitably lands in a tangled web of international law dictated by the Hague Convention. In Israel, attorney Efrat Shapiro, a specialist in international kidnapping cases for the Ministry of Justice, grapples with these complex issues on a daily basis. She considers her advanced studies at Ohr Torah Stone to be the foundation for her sharp ability to research and apply proper statutes and ordinances -- while always maintaining a sensitivity to the intrinsic value of every child's soul.
For Shapiro, one year of intensive Jewish studies at Midreshet Lindenbaum prior to law school led to another - and yet another. "After graduating from high school, I realized that I didn't know enough about limudei kodesh, and I was fascinated by the mystique of talmud study," she recalls. After spending the 1994-95 academic year at Midreshet Lindenbaum, Shapiro continued there part-time while attending the Hebrew University School of Law. She returned to Lindenbaum as a Bruria Scholar following her law school graduation, pursuing her own studies in the bet midrash while serving as a role model and learning partner for younger women in the college. The experience was invaluable to Shapiro in her first legal employment - assistant to Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein - as well as in her current position. "The analytical thought processes I've developed through my talmud enhance my performance as a lawyer in every situation."
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"Midreshet Lindenbaum opened up my understanding of the world of halacha, giving me great knowledge of Jewish law to parallel my study of secular law," the young lawyer says. "And the learning was always conducted in an atmosphere that stressed our responsibility to others and the importance of every single Jew."