JOFA’s Torch

There are several things that happen when a stone is thrown into a lake. First, the stone pierces the top ...

When LGBT Jews re-encounter their tradition on their own terms, they can experience spiritual risk, iconoclasm, and reimagined faith. One ...

This week marks the fifteenth anniversary of my conversion to Judaism.As for so many others, my process of entering into ...

I am supposed to go to the mikveh tomorrow night.The mikveh and I have never been friends; the first time I immersed, ...

Vashti is a heroine of the Purim story because she chose not to expose her naked body to the Court despite ...

In my mind, the definitive tale of sisterhood was not the conventionally chosen classic, Little Women , but rather the ...

When we received our JOFA sukkah poster last week, I excitedly showed my daughters, ages five and ten, the poster ...

Growing up as the daughter of two teachers, my parents encouraged me to read every kind of book that I ...

My youngest daughter will turn nine in just a few weeks, but I have already begun to actively arrange for ...

I pray every day. Most days the early morning cerebral fog is pretty dense and my anxiety about being late ...

I never could carry a tune but, at an early age, I discovered that I could make a soulful sound ...

If you had told me five years ago that I would be making aliyah in the midst of a war ...