Jofa Recent Media

“My Body, Whose Decision?” On July 29, at the Sixth Street Synagogue in New York City, JOFA held a panel on reproductive choice, looking at the issue from medical, halakhic,

By Yonina Bendheim Jacobson A few Shabbatot ago, while speaking about Parashat Korah, the rabbi of our shul took the opportunity to exhort all of the members of the congregation

By Karen Miller Jackson Women’s Torah learning, teaching, and leadership is booming in Israel today. The number of beit midrash programs that exist and the number of women studying in

TITLE T/KBy Daphne Lazar PriceI’m so excited about the editorial board’s choice to focus on women’s learning in this issue of the JOFA Journal. The timing is hardly coincidental. As

Learning from Male and Female Teachers, Teaching Male and Female Students DifferentiallyBy Sharon FreundelFor many years, in the girls’ Tanakh classes that I taught at a Modern Orthodox day school,

Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of TraditionBy Naomi SeidmanThe Littman Library of Jewish Civilization/ Liverpool University Press, 2019, $44.95By Roselyn BellIf one wanted

By Tammy Jacobowitz For those privileged to grow up with Bible study as a steady companion, the Bible’s distance from the sensibilities, assumptions, and conditions of our world may take

Camp was over, the children were being picked up by their anxious parents, and we, the exhausted staff, were finally relaxing a little. “So what are you up to now?” asked

I no longer consider myself an academic. I have a Ph.D. in rabbinic literature and I use the tools I got from academia every day in my teaching and writing