Jewish Texts

Jews Don’t Believe in Birthdays but in Saving Lives

My husband does not do birthdays. When I first met him over 20 years ago, this truly puzzled me. Birthdays ...

The context was a class on the gun violence epidemic in Chicago. I had finished the presentation by mentioning some ...

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

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

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

A new issue of the JOFA Journal will soon be in our subscribers’ mailboxes; its theme is Orthodox women in ...

Just as words can push people apart, so too can they bring us closer.

In his anger, Moses uses a destructive label for his people in public.

Click here for part 1 of this series. Rabbi Benay Lappe instructed us in the traditional method of Talmud study, ...

I know that attending the Yeshivat Maharat graduation is the “right thing to do” but it is easy to forget, ...

Readers often ask: How did a girl raised in a secular socialist family in Los Angeles come to be a ...

We are the “selfie generation.” Don’t let the epithet unsettle you. According to leading sociologists, we are not the first ...