1. Yehudit Friedman,‘With the Establishment of the Ulpana’, Zra'mi (October 1942), p. 1 [in Hebrew].
2. Ross, Tamar. 2007.Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism146Tel Aviv: Am Oved. [in Hebrew] (English version: Tamar Ross,Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism(Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2004).
3. Limud toranirefers to ‘The rabbinic corpus that was written and compiled between 70 and 600 c. e…. the Mishnah, the Thsefta, the two Talmuds…These documents, set the norms for Jewish behaviors and rituals, they also convey the primary myths that form the basis for post-biblical theology and belief system’. Elizabeth Shanks Alexander, ‘The Impact of Feminism on Rabbinic Studies: The Impossible Paradox of Reading Women into Rabbinic Literature’,Jews and Gender: The Challenge to Hierarchy—Studies in Contemporary Jewry, 16 (2000), 10–18 (p.101).
4. For a different version of theulpana'sstory, one which focuses on the establishment of and life at theulpana, see Lilach Rosenberg—Friedman, ‘The First Bnei Akiva Ulpana in Pre-State Israel: Setting the Foundations for New Gender Concepts’,Dor Ledor, 24 (2004), 69–90 [in Hebrew]