Women & Feminism

It is funny to celebrate the 120th anniversary of our synagogue when Judaism tells us that 120 years should mark ...

Two weeks each month, I refrain from physical intimacy with my husband because of Jewish law. It is not only ...

The story of Esther teaches us many things, amongst them, that timing is everything.This year, the women’s Megillat Esther reading ...

This Thursday (March 13) many Jews will fast from sunrise to sunset in commemoration of Esther’s fast before she approached ...

Every year costumed women and children arrive from communities across the island, all aglow and abuzz with great anticipation. Purim ...

The excitement in the halls was palpable. Was the enthusiasm because of the record-breaking number of attendees (1,000), the new venue ...

This piece was submitted on Friday, January 31, 2014. The event took place on Sunday, January 26.—When a couple gets ...

I am a person who puts on, or “lays,” tefillin (phylacteries). I happen to be female. While my gender, to ...

If I ever had a rabbi, Ruth Calderon would be her. I only ever saw Calderon once, on Youtube, as ...

Many wonderful things happened at last week’s JOFA Conference. But the highlight for me was Israeli Knesset member Ruth Calderon’s impromptu ...

This week’s JOFA Conference, with 1000 participants from 125 cities in seven countries, over 50 sessions on topics as diverse ...

Little known fact: The JOFA Conference existed before JOFA existed. The first conference on feminism and Orthodoxy that took place ...