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Confronting Barriers

Joy Levitt first decided to go to rabbinical school, she was shocked to discover women couldn’t enroll.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Confronting Barriers." (Viewed on June 15, 2026) <https://qa.jwa.org/media/confronting-barriers>.