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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.

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.

Editing

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

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.

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

See also

• Timeline of women rabbis

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. Night of Questions. United Kingdom: Reconstructionist Press, 2000.
4. "The Sisterhood 50". The Jewish Daily Forward. 21 July 2010. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
5. "Newsweek List Takes a Page From 'The Sisterhood 50'". The Jewish Daily Forward. 18 April 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2014.

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Timeline of women rabbis
Pre-modern figures	Bible and Talmud Deborah (1107–1067 BCE) Bruriah (2nd century) Medieval and early modern era Rashi's daughters (11th–12th century) Bat ha-Levi (12th century) Paula Dei Mansi (13th century) Miriam Shapira-Luria (14th century) Fioretta of Modena (1522–1580) Bayla Falk (16th century) Eva Bacharach (1580–1651) Asenath Barzani (1590–1670) Frehat Bat Avraham (d. 1756) Maiden of Ludmir (1805–1888)
Modern figures	Ray Frank (1861–1948) Lily Montagu (1873–1963) Regina Jonas (1902–1944) Tehilla Lichtenstein (1893–1973) Paula Ackerman (1893–1989) Martha Neumark (1904–1981) Avis Clamitz (1908-1991) Helen Levinthal (1910–1989) Sally Priesand (b. 1946) Mimi Feigelson (b. 1963) First ordination by denomination Regina Jonas (Reform, 1935) Sandy Sasso (Reconstructionist, 1974) Lynn Gottlieb (Renewal, 1981) Amy Eilberg (Conservative, 1985) Tamara Kolton (Humanistic, 1999) Sara Hurwitz (Orthodox, 2009)
Alternate rabbinical roles	Yoetzet halacha Toanot Rabniyot
Organisations and midrashot	Women's Rabbinic Network Yeshivat Maharat Matan Women's Institute Midreshet Lindenbaum Nishmat Center Hadran
Category: Women rabbis

• American Reconstructionist rabbis
• Reconstructionist women rabbis
• Living people
• Barnard College alumni
• New York University alumni
• Reconstructionist Rabbinical College alumni
• Rebbetzins
• 21st-century American rabbis
• Presidents of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association