JOFA’s Torch

On July 27, the 29th of Tammuz, I will observe the 909th yahrtzeit of Rabbi Shlomo Yizhaki, better known as ...

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

“You’re thinking of going to a conference on Orthodox Feminism? But that can’t exist. Besides, you don’t hate men or ...

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 ...

What can happen when we take mikvah out of the realm of the hidden, and bring it into a space ...

I was sitting in synagogue beside a beautiful, ornate, wood carved mechitzah when I saw something I had never noticed ...

For millennia, it has been taken for granted that the place for Jewish women was in the home and in ...

I’ve been pushing off writing this post all week. I’ve been hoping that the boys would return home, that the girls would return home, ...

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

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