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Rabbanit Leah Sarna
Rabbanit Sarna is an award-winning Jewish educator who is passionate about building intergenerational community around Torah and Mitzvot. She also currently serves as a member of the faculty at the Drisha ...
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Rabbanit Tanya Farber
Rabbanit Tanya Farber is a Torah teacher with many years of experience teaching students of all ages, from kids to adults! Reb Tanya also worked for a decade with adults with developmental disabilities. She is ...
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Rabbanit Mindy Schwartz Zolty
Rabbanit Mindy Schwartz Zolty is Rabbanit at Congregation Ramath Orah on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Mindy received a masters in Biblical and Talmudic Interpretation from the Graduate Program ...
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Project Ruth ~ Resources for Shavuot 5784/2024
To help enhance your participation and learning for Shavuot, check out Jofa’s Megillat Ruth & Shavuot Resources, including: Excellent recordings of both Megillat Ruth and the trope, accessible both online and via downloadable Apple app ...
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Purim Resources 5784/2024
Purim is just around the corner — Saturday night and Sunday, March 23-24! Please take a moment to complete this form if you know of a women’s Megillat Esther reading taking place in ...
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Dina BrawerHanukkahShema Bekolah
Hanukkah: A Lesson in Fixed Spontaneity
By Dina Brawer [1] Imagine the elation felt by the Hasmoneans who recaptured the Temple and their jubilant euphoria when their frantic search produced a small jar of pure oil. ...
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Channa Lockshin BobHanukkahShema Bekolah
Hanukah: The People’s Holiday
By Channa Lockshin Bob[1] Many cultures celebrate a midwinter holiday. In fact, many of these holidays are celebrated through candles and food. While Hanukah was only celebrated from post-Biblical times ...
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High HolidaysShema BekolahShemini AtzeretSimchat TorahSukkotTorah
Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah
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 ...
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Daphne Lazar PriceJofaJournal Fall 2023
Jofa: The Next 25 Years
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 ...
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agunotjewish divorce
Jofa Statement on New Jersey Legal Decision Supporting Agunah’s Free Speech
September 6, 2023 Background: Several organizations participated as friends-of-the-court. The ACLU of New Jersey, the ACLU, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, Sanctuary for Families, and Unchained at Last filed a ...
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As we Turn Toward Elul,
Let’s Find Our Strengths
by Evonne Marzouk
This coming week is the reading of Parshat Shoftim, the first parsha of the month of Elul. It is a month, of course, associated with teshuva (return) in preparation for ...
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agunotjewish divorce
The Agunah Crisis and the Courts:
The Agunah Crisis and the Courts:
New Attempt to Solve an Old Problem
By Anna Urowitz-Freudenstein
The complicated details of Jewish divorce are based on only two verses in the Torah (Deut. 24:1-2 – They are in this week’s Torah reading, Parashat Ki Teitzei). Clearly the ...
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reproductive justice; reproductive freedom; religious freedom; abortion; reproductive rights
One Year Later: Reflections on the Dobbs Decision and What Remains at Stake
One Year Later: Reflections on the Dobbs Decision and What Remains at Stake
By Daphne Lazar Price
As we near the one year anniversary of the Dobbs decision – which overturned federal constitutional protections of privacy and abortion rights that have stood since the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision – ...
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Passover
Why this Passover is like no other
By Daphne Lazar Price, April 9, 2023 Jews must be able to live free of fear, including in Israel, where rockets from Lebanon are antisemitic violence, plain and simple. Read ...
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