Women & Feminism

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An Ancient Oath Renewed for Labor Day

Often reality is stranger than fiction; The vote for one of the first major strike in American history was taken ...

Maimonides’ Home and My Grandmother’s Song

Ladino first cast its magic spell on me in childhood. It always struck me as a graceful, rolling language, one ...

The Other ‘F’ Word

Feminism has become a dirty word.In discussions with students, this is what I hear: “Sure, I think women should get ...

Signing a Post-Nup: A Love Story

As I walked in the door from a long day at work, I started receiving calls and emails from friends ...

Camp as a Place for Change

I still have not gotten situated to the long Shabbats of the summer. For sixteen summers, I was immersed in ...

Shelo Asani Isha

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

Finding a Place at the JOFA UK Conference

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

Life as a Female Semicha Student

When I was young, I was drawn to the study of Torah as a way to get closer to God ...

An Open Letter to Everyone Who Asks Me Why I’m Still Here

This is the second post in a two-part series of blog posts written by high school students. We encourage you ...

A Controversial Clarification

This is the first post in a two-part series of blog posts written by high school students. We encourage you ...

No More Whispers

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

JOFA Kickstarter Celebrates Women Scholars

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

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