At RRC, Kolot offers courses, pastoral education, faculty education, and certification in Jewish women's studies.

In 2001, Dr. Lori Lefkovitz, Director of Kolot, was appointed to the newly endowed Gottesman Kolot Chair of Gender and Judaism, established in honor of Sadie Gottesman and Arlene Gottesman Reff. In the fall of 2003, Lefkovitz taught American Jewish Feminism at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, as a senior Fulbright Scholar. She was chosen by the student body to receive the Yaakov Gladstone Award for Fine Teaching at the 2009 RRC Graduation Ceremony.

In its work as an academic center, Kolot fulfills its mission by: 

• Training rabbinical students in scholarship that recovers the voices and experiences of Jewish women and men. Kolot incorporates the perspectives of gender theory, social history, psychology, and other disciplines into rabbinical training. Course offerings include Bible and the Feminist Imagination and Images of Body in Jewish Mysticism. Kolot also provides pastoral education on domestic violence and breast cancer in the Jewish community.
• Advancing scholarship in the fields of Jewish women's and gender studies through teaching, publications, and conferences.
• Offering a graduate certificate in Jewish Women's Studies, in conjunction with Temple University, to rabbinical and graduate students, as well as to non-matriculated students.
• Bringing noted Jewish feminist writers and poets to RRC and the public through the Henny Wenkart Kolot Writer-in-Residence.
• Guaranteeing a state-of-the-field library collection in Jewish women's and gender studies through the Susan Beckerman endowment fund.

Cumulatively, this work has contributed significantly to RRC being cited as one of only ten seminaries nationwide having exemplary practices in preparing clergy to address sexual health and justice.