Rabbanit Judith Levitan

Rabbanit Judith Levitan is a lawyer with close to 20 years experience in the field of social justice. She currently works at Legal Aid NSW where she uses Human Centred Design to innovate and improve legal services for disadvantaged people. She holds degrees in Law and Social Work and also studied at Midreshet HaRova and Nishmat. Her honours thesis examined family violence in the Orthodox Jewish community and she was a founding member of the Jewish Alliance Against Family Violence. Rabbanit Judith lives in Sydney, Australia where she represents the NSW Jewish community at interfaith events, runs women’s tefilah services and teaches bat mitzvah and brides. Since receiving smicha she has served as Religious Programs Coordinator at Maroubra Shule in a Sydney and was recently appointed as a chaplain in the Australian Defence Force