JOFA JOURNAL

Challenges Facing Singles & Nontraditional Families

Fall 2017 I Heshvan 5778 I Volume XV, Issue 1

Articles

A BIGGER TENT

By Bat Sheva Marcus

Changing Personal and Family Choices in Contemporary Orthodox Lives

By Sylvia Barack Fishman

A View from the Heights: No Place I’d Rather Be

By Tamar Novick

Single Moms Raising Sons

By Chaye Kohl

Paying Too High a Price for Being Single

By Zelda R. Stern

Jewish Women with Unwanted Pregnancies Have a Place to Turn

By Barbara Trainin Blank

The Second Best Time to Plant a Tree Is Right Now (or: When Life Doesn’t Go According to Plan and the Jewish Community Is Slow to Catch On)

By Anne Gordon

Two Dirty Words—Shidduch Crisis—And How to Fix Them

By Sharon Weiss-Greenberg

BEST PRACTICES For Inclusion of Singles in Our Communities

Our Gift to Our Community: Our Amazing Children, Some of Whom Are LGBT

By Saundra Sterling Epstein

Finding a Place for My Family under the Umbrella of Ahavat Yisrael

By Shlomit Metz-Poolat and Miryam Kabakov

Six Things I Wish I Said Sooner

By Rachel Waldman
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Book Corner

Gender Equality and Prayer in Jewish Law

By Ethan Tucker and Micha’el Rosenberg
Reviewed By Aryeh Klapper

Beautiful Days, Holy Days & My Jewish Year

By Avraham Peretz Friedman & Abigail Pogrebin
Reviewed By Roselyn Bell

If All the Seas Were Ink

By Ilana Kurshan
Reviewed By Roselyn Bell
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A Publication of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
Volume XV, Issue 1
Fall 2017 – Heshvan 5778

EDITORS:
Roselyn Bell
Leah Sarna

PRESIDENT:
Bat Sheva Marcus

PAST PRESIDENTS:
Judy Heicklen
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
Adrienne Goldfeder
Viva Hammer
Karen Miller Jackson
Pam Scheininger
Zelda R. Stern

PUBLICATIONS MANAGER:
Deborah Wenger

GRAPHIC DESIGNER:
Graphic Concepts

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