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Life as a Female Semicha Student

When I was young, I was drawn to the study of Torah as a way to get closer to God ...

This is the second post in a two-part series of blog posts written by high school students. We encourage you ...

This is the first post in a two-part series of blog posts written by high school students. We encourage you ...

A new issue of the JOFA Journal will soon be in our subscribers’ mailboxes; its theme is Orthodox women in ...

Just as words can push people apart, so too can they bring us closer.

In his anger, Moses uses a destructive label for his people in public.

Click here for part 1 of this series. Rabbi Benay Lappe instructed us in the traditional method of Talmud study, ...

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

Readers often ask: How did a girl raised in a secular socialist family in Los Angeles come to be a ...

We are the “selfie generation.” Don’t let the epithet unsettle you. According to leading sociologists, we are not the first ...

An important part of being content is to stop comparing ourselves to others.

I ask this question often, in one form or another. And often, people answer with a cynical “No.”A business leader ...