JOFA UK

Mother and Daughter Reflect on their First Mikveh Experience

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

We live in a provincial community in the UK and like in many provincial communities, attitudes towards women’s involvement in ...

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

“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 ...

Although the official subtitle of last month’s London JOFA conference was “Reinforcing Tradition through Renewal,” what I took away from ...

There is a place for every man and woman in feminism. Furthermore, there is a place for every Jewish woman ...

A few years ago my family was living in Israel and attending a synagogue near our home. One Shabbat, our ...

“Why don’t you learn to read the megillah,” asked my husband a few months before Purim.I thought about it for ...

I have always fancied myself as a feminist. When I was in primary school, I remember arguing with one of ...