Bruria David

Rebbetzin Bruria David
Born	Bruria David 1938 (age 78–79) New York City
Residence	Jerusalem, Israel
Alma mater	Columbia University
Occupation	Founder and dean, Beth Jacob Jerusalem
Years active	1960s to present
Spouse(s)	Rabbi Yonasan David
Parent(s)	Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner Rebbetzin Masha Lipshitz

Rebbetzin Bruria David (Hebrew: ברוריה דיויד‎‎) (born 1938) is a Haredi Jewish rebbetzin and Torah scholar. She is the founder and dean of Beth Jacob Jerusalem (commonly known as BJJ), a prestigious Haredi religious girls seminary located in the Unsdorf neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, and the wife of Rabbi Yonasan David, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood. Together with her husband and parents, she was on one of the airplanes hijacked by the Black September terrorists in 1970.

Rebbetzin David is the daughter of Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner and his rebbetzin, Masha Lipshitz. Her parents married in 1933 and moved to Mandatory Palestine, but returned to New York a year later, where Bruria was born.

She received her doctorate in history from Columbia University in 1971 as a student of Salo Baron. Her dissertation, titled The Dual Role of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Chajes: Traditionalist and Maskil, demonstrates a thorough mastery of the secondary material, and deals with Rabbi Chajes's relationships in the traditional world of Orthodox Judaism.

Rebbetzin David founded Beth Jacob Jerusalem (BJJ), also known as Machon Sarah Shneirer, in the early 1970s as a post high school seminary in Israel, which is geared for American and European graduates of Bais Yaakov who wish to pursue Torah study on an advanced academic level. Previously, she had a seminary in Esther Schonfeld of the East Side, and then in BYA. The seminary also provides professional training toward a teaching degree. Rebbetzin David personally interviews each applicant.

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