JOFA’s Torch

There is a particular photograph that adorns the imagination of every engaged couple; it is of a young girl, age ...

Jew. Woman. American. Those three attributes are as intrinsic to my identity as my own name.  A close fourth would ...

I have always fancied myself as a feminist. When I was in primary school, I remember arguing with one of ...

Partnership minyans are a relatively new phenomenon in our part of northwest London, so when one started around the corner ...

As I wrote in The Torch last fall, I started attending the early morning minyan at my synagogue with the ...

Megillat Ruth is named for the heroine Ruth, who clung to Naomi in what the tradition has perceived as an ...

The night before my wedding, as I was falling asleep, I realized that my fiance and I hadn’t discussed whether ...

My daughter is thrilled to start wearing a uniform next year, and frankly, I share her enthusiasm. At her Bais ...

I was born Orthodox. I was raised Orthodox. And without much of a rebellion at all, I slipped into adulthood ...

Last year I rediscovered Megillat Ruth. On the morning of the second day of Shavuot I joined a closely knit ...

Tucked away, among a pile of folders and spiral notebooks that contain the photocopied sources and notes of classes gone ...

The use of tzniut, modesty, as a cudgel against Jewish women has been well documented in the JOFA Journal, conferences, ...