JOFA’s Torch

In honor of our 18th anniversary tribute dinner, we launched the photography campaign #HumansofJOFA. Modeled on the famous (and oft-replicated) ...

My 15-month-old daughter has a game she likes to play. She enjoys walking up to my husband while he is ...

On Shabbat Noach (the Shabbat when Parshat Noah was read) I marked my 70th birthday by reciting haftarah at the Hendon ...

This past Sukkot, I was on a spiritual high after Yom Kippur. The sanctuary had swelled with voices of prayer ...

Please dress appropriately and modestly at all times. Modesty is the mark of a man – your beauty is within. ...

When I was 17, as part of my high school matriculation requirements, I wrote a paper  on the subject of ...

“Some people will do anything to get out of synagogue on Simchat Torah” said my husband as we headed off ...

That night, a video changed my life. It was just over six minutes long, yet its message touched me profoundly ...

I hate Jewish holidays.I got married soon after becoming Orthodox, and I was excited to celebrate the Jewish holidays fully ...

When I got married, there were a million things on my to-do list. There was one thing, one pretty important ...

Three females — a 63-year-old, a 41-year-old, and an 11-year-old — have much in common. In addition to their blond, ...

Over the summer, Larry, the organizer of the minyan that I attend for Rosh Hashanah, sent out an email asking ...