Adele Bluthenthal Heiman Content type Biography Blog Encyclopedia Article Lesson Plan Oral History Podcast Collection We Remember This Week in History The Feminist Revolution Women Rabbis Women of Valor Power Couples Soviet Jewry Baltimore DC Katrina Seattle Western Pioneers Death of Adele Bluthenthal Heiman, Communal Leader in Arkansas April 3, 1979 Adele Bluthenthal Heiman was the first woman president of the Arkansas Jewish Assembly. http://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/03/1979/this-week-in-history-death-of-adele-bluthenthal-heiman-communal-leader-in Adele Bluthenthal Heiman Adele Bluthenthal Heiman spent her life in Arkansas, helping create and lead the state’s close-knit Jewish community. In her various leadership positions, she made strides in helping not only Jewish women, but the Jewish community as a whole.