August 2023

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

In times of crisis like we are experiencing right now, coming together helps remind us that we are not alone. We invite you to find strength and inspiration in the community of women, through events like our next Food for Thought: Learning and Tasting Event Exploring Talmudic Heroines, scheduled for the Five Towns, Long Island, […]

“Food for Thought: A Learning & Tasting Event Exploring Talmudic Heroines” Five Towns, Long Island, New York
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Jofa Statement on New Jersey Legal Decision Supporting Agunah’s Free Speech

Jewish Divorce & Agunot / Ali Yares

September 6, 2023 Background: Several organizations participated as friends-of-the-court. The ACLU of New Jersey, the ACLU, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, Sanctuary for Families, and Unchained at Last filed a brief to affirm that the state and federal constitutions protect speech by a person experiencing abuse and seeking her community’s support. The Organization for the

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

Events, Holidays, Shema Bekolah / Wendy Messeloff

We’re proud to announce that Jofa’s “Shema Bekolah: The High Holiday Collection,” a compendium of divrei Torah by women for the entire high holiday season — including Selichot, Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah — is now available, via Amazon! Click here to order! We thank everyone who contributed to this

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

Holidays / Wendy Messeloff

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 teshuva (return) in preparation for the upcoming holidays. So it seems fitting that the parsha begins: “Judges and officers shall you appoint for yourselves in all your cities…” (Deut. 16:18) Read

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Let’s Find Our Strengths
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The Agunah Crisis and the Courts:
New Attempt to Solve an Old Problem
By Anna Urowitz-Freudenstein

Jewish Divorce & Agunot / Wendy Messeloff

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, Parashat Ki Teitzei). Clearly the legal, economic, familial and psychological aspects of divorce are more complicated than the information written in two verses. This is evident to those of us

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New Attempt to Solve an Old Problem
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