JOFA JOURNAL

Leaning In

Fall 2013 I Kislev 5774 I Volume XI, Issue 2

Articles

“Leaning In” to Our Religious and Spiritual Lives

By Judy Heicklen

The Maharat Moment: Why Yeshivat Maharat’s Ordination Matters

By Sara Hurwitz

Meet the Maharats

On Being Marta d’Atra, the Spiritual Leader, of My Congregation

By Dina Najman

Models of Empowerment

By Sharon Weiss-Greenberg

What’s in a Title?

By Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld

Serara and Women: Who May Wear the Crown?

By Barry Freundel

Heter Hora’ah: From Women Pleaders to Women Leaders

By Shlomo Riskin

Neither Headmaster nor Rabbanit: On Being a Female Head of School

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik

On the Verge of Real Change: Women in Jewish Communal Leadership

By Shifra Bronznick

What I Learned from Interfaith Dialogue

By Rori Picker Neiss.

My Yoetzet Halacha: A Religious Resource for the Community

By Debby Graneviz

On Leading a Partnership Minyan

By Allie Alperovich

Making History, Without Making Waves: On Becoming a Shul President

By Phyllis Shapiro

Manhigot: Models of Women’s Torah Leadership in Israel

By Karen Miller Jackson

Women in Communal Leadership—A View from the UK

By Nicky Goldman

Emerging Voices: Leyning Out of Love: How Learning to Leyn Deepened My Connection to Torah

By Leah Slaten

Emerging Voices: How Teaching a Friend to Leyn Taught Me More Than I Could Have Imagined

By Ricki Heicklen
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Book Corner

Kaddish: Women’s Voices Edited by Michal Smart, conceived by Barbara Ashkenas

Reviewed By Israel Drazin

Tradition and Equality in Jewish Marriage: Beyond the Sanctification of Subordination

By Melanie Landau
Reviewed By Miriam A. Cope

Talking about Intimacy and Sexuality: A Guide for Orthodox Jewish Parents

By Yocheved Debow
Reviewed By Bat Sheva Marcus

Nehalel beShabbat Siddur Devised and English translation by Michael Haruni

Reviewed By Rachel Levmore

Jerusalem Maiden

By Talia Carner
Reviewed By Roselyn Bell
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A Publication of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
Volume XI – Issue 2
Fall 2013–Kislev 5774

EDITOR:
Roselyn Bell

PRESIDENT:
Judy Heicklen

PAST PRESIDENT:
Carol Kaufman Newman

FOUNDING PRESIDENT:
Blu Greenberg

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR:
Elana Maryles Sztokman

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE:
Allie Alperovich
Sharon Baker
Carolyn Hochstadter Dicker
Israel Drazin
Rachel Kohl Finegold
Viva Hammer
Karen Miller Jackson
Pam Scheininger
Zelda R. Stern

PUBLICATIONS MANAGER:
Deborah Wenger

GRAPHIC DESIGNER:
Adam Rawson

FOUNDING DONORS:
Belda and Marcel Lindenbaum
Jewish Life Network/
Steinhardt Foundation
The Harry Stern Family Foundation,
Zelda R. Stern