Denominations

The first episode of “The Joy of Text” may make you blush. If it does, you’re likely its target audience. ...

Last week The New Republic ran a story saying that the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, the seminary of the American Jewish ...

In the great story of humanity there has always been the forces that compel us to assimilate amongst each other ...

“Where there is faith, there are fewer beliefs. You use beliefs to shore up opinions, rather than a relationship with ...

As a Jewish woman raised in a Conservative home, a Reform synagogue, and who has been Modern Orthodox since the ...

It was mid-August and the air conditioning was broken in the café on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Across ...

I know that attending the Yeshivat Maharat graduation is the “right thing to do” but it is easy to forget, ...

I am an immigrant to the United States. I am the holder of a green card—the documentation that gives me ...

A week after we celebrated the 66th anniversary of the founding of the modern State of Israel, I’ve been reflecting ...

Dr. Monique Katz, a member of JOFA’s Board of Directors, once shared a d’var Torah that has stuck with me ...

Michal Dicker shares her compelling story of growing into her Orthodox feminist identity. She originally submitted this essay to gain ...

My mother-in-law likes to use the expression “you could have knocked me down with a feather.” I can’t quite imagine ...