JOFA’s Torch

The great challenge is learning how to honor the past while being able to create a future based on fresh ...

Many of us have read some of the recent memoirs written by people who have left their Orthodox community of ...

I’ve just read a book whose sole purpose is to denigrate Open Orthodoxy, its institutions and its principles.Nevertheless, Why Open ...

Over 18 ½ years ago I was chosen to be the first Congregational Intern at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. ...

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The women wore a variety of costumes, from Disney princesses to Queen Esther herself. Listening to them read the Megillah ...

BrendaIn August last year the eldest of our three daughters was married to her long time boyfriend that she met ...

There I was. Twenty years old, newly engaged, and feeling like the luckiest girl in the world! I had a ...

One of the most empowering things I have done since living on my own as an Orthodox Jewish “single” is ...

I come from a rather Modern Orthodox, Ashkenazi family that is composed mostly of women. The only male in my ...

With the deplorable situation in Santa Clara (the Stanford rape case), there has recently been a media focus on rape. ...

The most recent episode of “The Joy of Text” podcast featured a discussion on the time period when couples are ...