Alexandra Dunietz

Alix is an independent scholar in Skokie, IL with a specialty in pre-modern Islamic history. She is an active board member of a local women’s tefillah group—and has paid dues to JOFA for years! She has attended the Nishmat Summer program in Jerusalem and learns in a weekly Gemara shiur.


Articles by Alexandra Dunietz

Two Women Make a Quorum

As I wrote in The Torch last fall, I started attending the early morning minyan at my synagogue with the ...

Pack Lunch, Hear Shofar, Drive Carpool

Every year at this time, from the second day of Rosh Chodesh Elul into Tishrei, my mind vaguely registers that ...

Pounding on the Gates of Heaven

We have much to lift our spirits and much to concern us in the attention paid to young women laying ...