Lori Lefkovitz

Lori Lefkovitz is the Sadie Gottesman and Arlene Gottesman Reff Professor of Gender and Judaism and director of Kolot: The Center for Jewish Women’s and Gender Studies at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. As a Fulbright scholar, she held a visiting professorship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2004, where she taught the literature of American Jewish Feminism. Her other awards include an academic fellowship at the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis, a Woodrow Wilson dissertation fellowship in the Women’s Studies Division, and a Golda Meir post-doctoral fellowship at the Hebrew University. She holds a B.A. from Brandeis University, and M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown University and is the author of books and articles in the fields of literature, critical theory, and Jewish feminism, including Shaping Losses: Cultural Memory and the Holocaust (co-edited with Julia Epstein). Kolot’s programs include Ritualwell.org, an online resource for Jewish feminist liturgy and ceremonies.