JOFA conference
The Vagina Monologues Frummed Out
Among many other exciting offerings at the JOFA conference evening of the arts, we’re excited to host Monologues from the ...
Do We Really Need the JOFA Conference?
They overflow the curbs of Eastern Parkway. With their black hats, beards, and suits, they are an inverse image of ...
On Being Stuck in Traffic with a Full Minivan
In 2013, I gathered together seven friends from my community to attend the JOFA Conference. We clambered into my Toyota ...
Our Quest for Holiness at the JOFA UK Conference
Although the official subtitle of last month’s London JOFA conference was “Reinforcing Tradition through Renewal,” what I took away from ...
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 ...
No More Whispers
What can happen when we take mikvah out of the realm of the hidden, and bring it into a space ...
If Not Now, When? Making Up for Lost Time
As I flick through the pages of my pocket prayer book deliberating over which tunes to pick for Lecha Dodi ...
Not Quite Fifty Years Behind America
Ten years ago on Simchat Torah, three American friends and I walked from synagogue to synagogue in our North West London neighborhood, looking ...
From Isolation to Community: Opening the Conversation on Mikvah
Two weeks each month, I refrain from physical intimacy with my husband because of Jewish law. It is not only ...
Fasting for Two: Who Makes the Call?
This Thursday (March 13) many Jews will fast from sunrise to sunset in commemoration of Esther’s fast before she approached ...