Lunchtime Lecture: Bat Paro: the story of Pharoah's daughter 2022

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Join this lecture to learn about the feminist story of Passover, presented by Rabbanit Judith Levitan.

Bat Paro, Pharoah's daughter, is one of the most significant characters in the story of Pesach.

In this lecture, Rabbanit Judith Levitan will consider Bat Paro's role in the feminist story of Passover and what makes her a Jewish heroine.

Rabbanit Judith Levitan is a community educator and lawyer with over 15 years' experience in the field of social justice. She works at Legal Aid NSW where she uses Human Centred Design to innovate legal services for disadvantaged people. She was recently appointed as the Religious Program Coordinator at Maroubra Synagogue in Sydney. She holds degrees in Law and Social Work and her honours thesis in Social Work was about community attitudes to domestic violence in the Orthodox Jewish Community. She has studied in a range of Jewish seminaries for women's higher learning. Most recently, she received Simcha, rabbinic ordination, from Yeshivat Maharat, an Orthodox institution in New York.