JOFA’s Torch

Purim is behind us. The kitchen counter is littered with nosh from lavish Purim baskets. There’s a lingering ringing in ...

Ever since I was young, I have always felt a strong connection to Purim. For most girls at that age, ...

Last month, my daughter celebrated her Bat Mitzvah. In the months before her Bat Mitzvah we moved from the Boston-area ...

This question has hounded me since childhood – both in the secular world where I grew up and in the ...

Crying isn’t supposed to be part of Purim. Maybe it’s okay if you’re six and having a sugar-induced meltdown right ...

This past Simchat Torah, my mother began planning her synagogue’s first women’s mincha, afternoon service. She was inspired by the ...

This past Shabbat as I walked to synagogue for mincha, afternoon services, I was thinking about how I would introduce ...

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

I can trace my choice not to go to rabbinical school to a particular moment in time. Rabbi Matthew Cutler ...

The experience of being a self-identifying Orthodox Feminist Jewish woman on a college campus can be simultaneously empowering and alienating. ...

When a person is born or a person dies the Jewish community rallies with meals, support, and love. When a ...

Believe me, I wish I did, but I have no choice but to dance. It chose me. It is amazing ...