Joy Levitt
American rabbi
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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]
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]