In addition to writing and teaching at RRC, Lefkovitz lectures around the country to university and Jewish audiences across the denominations. In the fall of 2003, Lefkovitz taught American Jewish Feminism at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, as a senior Fulbright Scholar.

The Role of Women in Religious Leadership: Judaism 2008, Keynote Address, Annual Jewish/Christian/Muslim Dialogue Event of the University of Toledo Religious-Studies Program, February 12, 2008

Restoring Women to the Hanukah Story: Lori Lefkovitz presents "Hanukah Torah Thoughts" to the Rabbinic Cabinet of United Jewish Communities. For video, click here. For audio, only:

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Jewish Women Changing America: Cross-Generational Conversations – Transcript and video clips of a conference convened by The Barnard Center for Research on Women, October 29, 2005. See and hear Kolot Director Lori Lefkovitz by clicking on her photograph and the one under "Panelists Discussion." For the complete transcript of the "Changing Judaism" panel discussion, click here.

 Kolot Director Lori Lefkovitz discusses the feminist impact on Judaism at the Barnard Center for Research on Women.

Selected Articles by Lori Lefkovitz:

Attending to Details: A Pesach Meditation on God, Grandmothers, and Gratitude, published in Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility, January 2000.

Daydreaming About My Daughters, from the Making Connections Study Kit, "Building a Jewish Home" published by the Jewish Outreach Partnership of Greater Philadelphia.

Excerpts from Speeches and Articles:

"My wish is that we will discover in Judaism a resource for health and gratitude, a tradition that makes us mindful of the body's holiness, in awe of human potential in each life moment and in all of the body's variety, respectful of the low falling breasts that nourished life or the map of experiences that lines our faces, humbled by our shared mortality, sympathetic, reverent, tolerant, and with a perspective that puts us in proper human scale, each body so very tiny in the scope of the cosmos, and each body a universe unto itself, so very much more grand and intricately designed than, say, the snowflake, itself a minor miracle. The Jewish Woman: Somebody, Nobody, and the Body of our Tradition," First Annual Tuttleman Symposium on Jewish Women, Philadelphia

"The most important work we do in the present is to discover the story that we need to tell about our past."
Living in History, honors program lecture, University of Delaware

"Naomi's return to Bethlehem represents the triumph of faith over fear." Close Calls and Near Misses: The Fundamental Jewish Plot, Or Kodesh, Rockville, MD

"Part of the optimism of Hannah's story rests in the assumption that communication can actually effect a change of heart. Hannah's and Eli's dialogue can serve as a model for all people with a stake in transcending differences of perspective." Presentation, Women's Dialogue Group, American Jewish Committee of New York, NY; reprinted in The Reconstructionist

"Our daughters will not forget to put a Miriam's Cup on their seder tables because they have never seen a seder table without one. It takes only one generation for a ritual to feel as if it were ordained at Sinai." Presentation to Kolot supporters at Rodeph Sholom, New York, NY