With many thanks to Rabbanit Bracha Jaffe, Jofa has resources to help you learn to leyn Megillat Kohelet for Shabbat Sukkot, or V’zot HaBracha for Simchat Torah. If you need to borrow a Torah for your women’s tefillah, partnership minyan, or lifecycle celebration, please see info on our Torah Lending Program, and contact us at […]
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Jofa is pleased to offer another event in its “Food for Thought” series –in Stamford, Connecticut, on Sunday evening, October 15! RSVP NOW TO JOIN US! Join us to nourish your mind, body, and spirit. Learn about women in the Talmud with Daphne Lazar Price, Executive Director of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance. Register and bring
We’re thrilled to announce the first event in our local Hilkhot Nashim Community Learning series! Join Jofa in Philadelphia on Tuesday, October 17, at 7PM, for in-depth learning and discussion in Hilkhot Nashim — Volume II, led by Ruthie Braffman Shulman, Community Scholar and Yoetzet Halacha, on the topic of women reciting havdalah. RSVP HERE
Hilkhot Nashim: Havdalah Community Learning in Philadelphia
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F R O M O U R E X E C U T I V E D I R E C T O R By Daphne Lazar Price In 1997 I attended the First International Conference on Feminism and Orthodoxy in New York City. It was the precursor to what was to become the Jewish
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Our Story: A Brief History of Jofa On a cold February morning in 1997, a small group of women, self-proclaimed Orthodox feminists all, rushed to set up everything just so in the conference space of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in midtown Manhattan. Folders were stuffed, registration lists printed, name tags arranged. The conference they had
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