Biography
Teaching and academia
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A graduate of Brandeis University, Lefkovitz received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Brown University and was a recipient of a Woodrow Wilson dissertation fellowship in women's studies, a Golda Meir post-doctoral fellowship at Hebrew University, a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis, and in 2004, a Fulbright Professorship at Hebrew University. She was previously an associate professor at Kenyon College.
Among the courses she teaches or has taught at RRC are: Literary Approaches to Bible; Bible and the Feminist Imagination; Writing for the Rabbinate; Gender and Judaism; Queering Jewish Studies; Jewish Literature.
Lefkovitz serves on editorial and professional boards and lectures widely to academic and Jewish audiences.
Feminism
Lefkovitz has expressed interest in reviving or reclaiming Jewish women's folk practices [3] and holidays. [4]
Since Kolot's founding in 1996, Lefkovitz has convened a landmark conference, together with the Renfrew Center, on Food, Body Image & Judaism, which examined eating disorders; established the Rosh Hodesh: "It's a girl thing!" program, that has popularly been adopted across the country; and, together with Ma'yan, co-founded Ritualwell.org, a website for contemporary Jewish ritual now maintained exclusively by Kolot, with Lefkovitz as its executive editor. Through a joint initiative, she established a program with Temple University awarding a certificate in Jewish Women's Studies.[ citation needed ]
Personal life
She is married to Rabbi Leonard Gordon, spiritual leader of Bnai Tikvah, in Canton MA, with whom she has two daughters.[ citation needed ]
