Joy Levitt

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Joy Levitt is an American rabbi, and from 1987 to 1989 was the first female president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association. [1]

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Education

In 1975 Levitt received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College; she later received a master's degree from New York University in 1976, and a rabbinical degree from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1981. [2]

Career

As a pulpit rabbi, Levitt served Congregation B'nei Keshet in Montclair, New Jersey and the Reconstructionist Synagogue of the North Shore in Plandome, New York. [3]

She was an associate executive director, executive director, and CEO of the Manhattan Jewish Community Center from 1998-2021. [4] [5] [6]

In 2024 she became the executive director of the Jerusalem Foundation. [7]

Editing

Levitt and her husband Rabbi Michael Strassfeld are coeditors of A Night of Questions, published by the Reconstructionist Press in 2000. [8]

Honors

In 2010 Levitt was named one of fifty of the most influential rabbis in America by The Sisterhood, The Jewish Daily Forward's women's issues blog. [9]

In 2010 and 2011 she was named by Newsweek as one of the most influential rabbis in America. [10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Academic Dean and Professor of Church History Emeritae Rosemary Skinner Keller; Rosemary Radford Ruether; Marie Cantlon (2006). Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Native American creation stories. Indiana University Press. pp. 553–. ISBN   0-253-34687-8.
  2. ↑ "Schenectady Gazette" . Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Joy Levitt". Shalom Hartman Institute. Retrieved 2025-03-04.
  4. ↑ "Joy Levitt to step down from Manhattan JCC after 24 years". The Forward. 2021-04-13. Retrieved 2025-03-04.
  5. ↑ Silow-Carroll, Andrew (2021-04-13). "Joy Levitt Announces Plans to Retire as Head of Manhattan JCC". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 2025-03-04.
  6. ↑ "Joy Levitt". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2025-03-04.
  7. ↑ Judah Ari Gross (2024-09-16). "Rabbi Joy Levitt steps in as CEO of Jerusalem Foundation Inc., looking to aid a 'very complicated but beautiful' city". eJewishPhilanthropy. Retrieved 2025-03-04.
  8. ↑ Night of Questions. United Kingdom: Reconstructionist Press, 2000.
  9. ↑ "The Sisterhood 50". The Jewish Daily Forward. 21 July 2010. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  10. ↑ "Newsweek List Takes a Page From 'The Sisterhood 50'". The Jewish Daily Forward. 18 April 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
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