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She graduated from Brooklyn College and also earned a master’s degree in public policy.
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Leah Novick
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She lives in Carmel, California. In the late 1950s, she was part of in sit-ins and lie-ins to integrate Westchester, Pennsylvania’s swimming pools. Later she moved to Westchester County, New York, where she helped organize Jewish groups to attend the 1963 March on Washington.
She ran unsuccessfully for the New York state Legislature in 1970 and moved to Washington to work as chief aide for Bella Abzug.
In 1977, she helped to coordinate the National Commission on the Observance of International Women"s Year. In 1978, she worked as a guest professor at Stanford.
During much of the 1980s she taught at U C Berkeley’s graduate school of public policy. In 2012 she was the chief organizer of a retreat focusing on American women's 40 years as rabbis, called “Forty Years on the Bimah” and held October
28-30 at the Mount Madonna Center in Watsonville, California.
According to Novick, this was the first interdenominational gathering of female rabbis. She has also recorded a Civil Defense of guided meditations with Desert Wind, and created the performance piece The Peaceful Macabee which is about groundbreaking Jewish women involved in spirituality. As of 2013 she serves as president of the educational non-profit Spirit of the Earth.
