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Gender & Sexuality, Keshet, Live
Queer-Identified, Frum-Identified Jew in a Complicated Relationship with Orthodoxy
This morning The Torch, a project of JOFA, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, shared the heartwarming story of a family adjusting to ...
Impurim
San Francisco, for all that city’s rent chaos and interweb madness, still has one of the most productive, experimental, and ...
Bible, Jewish Texts, Study, Women & Feminism
Deborah
In a disorderly, violent time, as Israel fought for land and survival, Deborah was called--and stepped forward--to aid her people.
Psalm 117: Less Is So Much More
The shortest psalm of all contains multitudes.
JOFA's Torch, Live, Women & Feminism
Why is “Sisterhood” Still Relevant on Today’s College Campuses?
This past weekend, I was involved in an incredibly exhilarating and spiritually uplifting event: Nashir, the intercollegiate Jewish women’s arts ...
Beliefs & Practices, Health & Wellness, Jewish Bioethics, Jewish Ethics, Live, Mourning Rituals, Study
Jewish Views on Organ Donation
Jewish views on organ donation are overridden by a single halakhic (legal) concept: pikuach nefesh—the Jewish obligation to save lives.
Celebrate, Hanukkah, Interfaith, Live, Members of the Scribe
Finding My Religion
I went to a Modern Orthodox elementary school. For eight years I learned Hebrew (Modern and biblical), participated in Shabbat onegs ...
Jewish Law, Jewish Texts, Study
The Shulchan Aruch
This 16th-century text by Joseph Caro is the ultimate code of Jewish law.