JOFA’s Torch

Last month, my daughter celebrated her Bat Mitzvah. In the months before her Bat Mitzvah we moved from the Boston-area ...

This question has hounded me since childhood – both in the secular world where I grew up and in the ...

Crying isn’t supposed to be part of Purim. Maybe it’s okay if you’re six and having a sugar-induced meltdown right ...

This past Simchat Torah, my mother began planning her synagogue’s first women’s mincha, afternoon service. She was inspired by the ...

This past Shabbat as I walked to synagogue for mincha, afternoon services, I was thinking about how I would introduce ...

The first episode of “The Joy of Text” may make you blush. If it does, you’re likely its target audience. ...

I can trace my choice not to go to rabbinical school to a particular moment in time. Rabbi Matthew Cutler ...

The experience of being a self-identifying Orthodox Feminist Jewish woman on a college campus can be simultaneously empowering and alienating. ...

When a person is born or a person dies the Jewish community rallies with meals, support, and love. When a ...

Believe me, I wish I did, but I have no choice but to dance. It chose me. It is amazing ...

For years I studied and taught Torah, learning and teaching in many settings, including several batei midrash, teacher training programs, ...

Last week, the Israeli ultra-Orthodox paper, HaMevaser, photoshopped German Chancellor Angela Merkel out of a photograph of the solidarity march ...