Career
She served as the only Jewish female first lieutenant in the Motor Corps of America during World War I. Lindheim was the second president of Hadassah, from 1926 to 1928, and published the book Immortal Adventure in 1928 concerning her first trip to what was then called Palestine, which was organized by Manya Shohat and on which she was accompanied by Bertha Guggenheim. In 1933 she moved to Kibbutz Mishmar Ha"emek. She helped to create two other kibbutzim, and was called "the grandmother of the kibbutz" by the Israeli press
In 1962 she published her autobiography Parallel Quest: A Search of a Person and a People.