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Jofa advocates for expanding women's rights opportunities within the framework of halakha, to build a vibrant and equitable Orthodox community.

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Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah

Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
“Food for Thought:
A Learning & Tasting Event
Exploring Talmudic Heroines”
Stamford, Connecticut
Sunday Evening, October 15

“Food for Thought: A Learning & Tasting Event Exploring Talmudic Heroines”
Five Towns, Long Island, New York
Wednesday Evening, November 29

Jofa Statement on New Jersey Legal Decision Supporting Agunah’s Free Speech

“Shema Bekolah: The High Holiday Collection” — Available Now!

As we Turn Toward Elul,
Let’s Find Our Strengths
by Evonne Marzouk

This coming week is the reading of Parshat Shoftim, the first parsha of the month of Elul. It is a month, of course, associated with

The Agunah Crisis and the Courts:
New Attempt to Solve an Old Problem
By Anna Urowitz-Freudenstein

The complicated details of Jewish divorce are based on only two verses in the Torah (Deut. 24:1-2 – They are in this week’s Torah reading,

One Year Later: Reflections on the Dobbs Decision and What Remains at Stake
By Daphne Lazar Price

As we near the one year anniversary of the Dobbs decision – which overturned federal constitutional protections of privacy and abortion rights that have stood since the

About Jofa

Jofa advocates for expanding women’s rights and opportunities within the framework of halakha, to build a vibrant and equitable Orthodox community.

Browse our website to find events, publications, podcasts, apps, recordings, guidebooks, articles, and more resources related to Jewish Orthodox Feminism!

You’ll learn how to read trope, find women-friendly minyanim, read divrei Torah by female scholars, learn about our webinars, blogs, events, and more!

Dive right in and see for yourself why Jofa is Where You Belong.

Rabba Amalia Haas served as Director of Spiritual Engagement at Congregation Beth Sholom in Providence, Rhode Island, from 2021-22, in the first cohort of Devorah Scholars. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she works as a chaplain at the Cleveland Clinic. She is the mother of six incredible children, ages 12-25. She is also the Founder and Chief Bee Whisperer of Amalia’s Bees (formerly Bee Awesome), a company that teaches about pollinators and climate change

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