JOFA JOURNAL

Ritual Innovation

Fall 2014 I Kislev 5775 I Volume XII, Issue 2

Articles

Pushing the Envelope

By Judy Heicklen

The Road to Wearing a Tallit: Why This Orthodox Woman Wears a Tallit

By Bat Sheva Marcus

O Pioneers!

By Sharon Weiss-Greenberg

Women Learn Daf Yomi from a Woman

By Michelle Cohen Farber

Doing Hoshanot from the Women’s Side of the Mehitzah

By Elisha Gechter

The Etrog as a Marker of Passage

By Deborah Wenger

Women as Circumcisers: Are Mohalot Kosher?

By Barbara Trainin Blank

On Being a Sandakit

By Belda Lindenbaum

A New Bat Mitzvah Ritual: Kos Shel Berakhah

By Naftali Brawer

Learning Sofrut to Write a Megillat Esther

By Phyllis Shapiro

Judging a Book by Its Cover: On Valuing the External Dimensions of Tefillah

By Eden Farber

Filling in the Traditional Blanks: Creating Rituals for Miscarriage and Weaning

By Haviva Ner-David

New Rituals for Women’s Tefillah Groups

By Susan Hornstein

Solving the Mamzerut Problem

By Rivkah Lubitch

Taking Shehitah into Our Own Hands: My Journey to Become a Shohetet

By Rachel Marder

Women as Mashgihot

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Book Corner

Mah She’elatekh Esther Vate’as

By Idit Bartov and Anat Novoselsky
Reviewed By Johnny Solomon

Chanah’s Voice: A Rabbi Wrestles with Gender, Commandment, and the Women’s Rituals of Baking, Bathing, and Brightening

By Haviva Ner-David
Reviewed By Roselyn Bell

Enchantress: A Novel of Rav Hisda’s Daughter

By Maggie Anton
Reviewed By Rachel Lieberman
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A Publication of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
Volume XII – Issue 2
Fall 2014–Kislev 5775

EDITOR:
Roselyn Bell

PRESIDENT:
Judy Heicklen

PAST PRESIDENT:
Carol Kaufman Newman

FOUNDING PRESIDENT:
Blu Greenberg

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR:
Sharon Weiss-Greenberg

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