Jofa Recent Media

By Michal S. RaucherIndiana University Press, 2020, $24.Reviewed by Roselyn BellIf you are tired of Ḥaredi women being portrayed as oppressed, uneducated, and subservient to their husbands, Michal Raucher’s Conceiving ...

By Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld“I don’t know when window shades were invented, but clearly that isn’t an option the Gemara is considering here,” I found myself saying to a class of ...

By Devora Steinmetz “But why do you call it a yeshiva?? A yeshiva is for men. Women learn in midrashot!” This is often the first question that people ask when ...

Drisha opened its doors in September 1979. Brochures had been distributed listing classes from morning till evening, Monday through Thursday. Women could come to a single class or could come ...

The Evolution of Women’s Learning—and My OwnBy Pam ScheiningerAs international women’s Jewish learning and scholarship have evolved in previously unimaginable ways, so has my own relationship with Jewish text. When ...

By Mira NiculescuI never saw myself as a feminist. That’s because I never had to. I was born in the 1980s in Paris into a secular family. I was raised ...

By Beverly Gertler The Unorthodox, a film sponsored by JOFA in the 2019 Israeli Film Festival at the Marlene Meyerson Jewish Community Center in Manhattan,. is based on the true ...

By Dvorah Levy As a psychotherapist, I am the instrument of my work.In addition to my degree and education, my own personal experiences and the work I’ve done with myself ...

By Abby KoganMy teaching experiences began in May of last year when my synagogue’s youth group was planning to do a joint tikkun leil Shavuot program with one of the ...

“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 ...