The Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association ( RRA ) founded in 1974, is the professional association of rabbis affiliated with Reconstructionist Judaism . It has approximately 300 members, most of whom are graduates of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. The RRA is a member of a number of national coalitions including the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations . Its first director was Rabbi Richard Hirsh who was hired in 1984 to work five hours/week when he was dean of admissions at RRC.
2-540: From 1987 to 1989, Rabbi Joy Levitt was the first female president of the RRA. In 2007, Rabbi Toba Spitzer became the first openly lesbian or gay person chosen to head a rabbinical association in the United States when she was elected president of the RRA. This article about a subject related to a Jewish organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Joy Levitt Joy Levitt
4-650: Is an American rabbi , and from 1987 to 1989 was the first female president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association . 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. Levitt and her husband Rabbi Michael Strassfeld are coeditors of A Night of Questions , published by
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