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Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance

Illustrative: Participants at JOFA's inaugural London meeting brainstorm issues of concern. (Courtesy of JOFA)
July 13, 2023, 2:53 am
Orthodox feminist group addressed allegations against sex-guru founder, says report
A third-party investigation initiated by the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance into its own conduct finds that while the group fulfilled legal requirements, it could have done more
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Sex therapist Dr. Bat Sheva Marcus, who is the clinical director at New York’s Maze Women’s Sexual Health. (Nusrat Mulla)
May 12, 2022, 2:21 am
US Orthodox feminist group commissions internal probe after harassment allegations
Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance has been rocked in recent weeks by multiple claims against founder Bat Sheva Marcus, a prominent Orthodox sex guru
By Andrew Lapin
Sex therapist Dr. Bat Sheva Marcus, who is the clinical director at New York’s Maze Women’s Sexual Health. (Nusrat Mulla)
April 14, 2022, 9:31 am
Sexual harassment allegations rock Orthodox Jewish feminist group
Range of accusations against Bat Sheva Marcus, sex therapist and former board chair of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, were kept quiet for years due to employees’ NDAs
By Andrew Lapin
Blu Greenberg, the founder of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, in an undated photo. (courtesy)
March 18, 2021, 3:05 pm
Join ToI Community and meet the matriarch of Orthodox feminism, Blu Greenberg
In this week’s Behind the Headlines, exclusively for ToI Community members, a pioneering Jewish voice that wrestles with the values of Orthodoxy and feminism
By ToI Staff
'Monologues from the Makom' is a collection of essays exploring female sexuality in the Orthodox world. (Illustration by Grace Yagel/ via JTA)
August 24, 2020, 4:16 am
Jewish ‘Vagina Monologues’ bares Orthodox taboos on women’s sexuality and gender
Contributors want women — and men — to know their struggles with same-sex attraction, lack of sex ed, and sexual assault are common, although willfully overlooked by community
By Josefin Dolsten
Illustrative: Yeshivat Maharat students attend a graduation ceremony in New York, June 17, 2019. (Shulamit Seidler-Feller/Yeshivat Maharat via JTA)
November 8, 2019, 12:52 pm
New program pays Orthodox synagogues to hire female spiritual leaders
Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance offering grants of up to $10,000 a year to synagogues that hire women for newly created positions
By JTA
Adina Shmidman, a doctor of educational psychology and the founder of a mentoring program for rabbis' wives, will be the first director of the Orthodox Union's new Department of Women's Initiatives. (Courtesy of the OU/via JTA)
October 31, 2017, 5:50 am
Orthodox Union’s new project says women don’t need to be rabbis to be leaders
A February ruling forbade females from holding rabbinical titles, officiating at events, or speaking from the pulpit, but expands their roles as teachers and counselors
By Ben Sales
View of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, June 23, 2017 (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)
July 11, 2017, 1:01 am
US Orthodox leaders dance around the Western Wall crisis
The deal to construct a pluralistic prayer platform was always complicated for Diaspora Orthodoxy, but the move to freeze the plan is even more perplexing
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Illustrative: A woman leads a partnership minyan at a conference in New York of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, December 2013. (Mike Kelly/JTA)
February 3, 2017, 2:11 am
OU bars women from serving as clergy in its synagogues
A response to handful of women with ritual or prayer leadership roles, ruling forbids formal religious guidance positions or delivering sermons during services
By JTA
Rabbi Daniel Landes, center, surrounded by his students at a June 7, 2016, private ordination ceremony in Jerusalem. (Naama Marinberg)
June 9, 2016, 8:56 pm
‘Post-denominational’ Orthodoxy gains new leadership in historic ordination
A Jerusalem ceremony for 21 male and female students of modern Orthodox Rabbi Daniel Landes celebrates their alt-neu role in halacha while pushing the egalitarian envelope
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Talli Rosenbaum
May 13, 2016, 11:18 am
Talli Rosenbaum
Sanctity and pleasure, feminists and rabbis
A call for competent prep for a joyful, meaningful marital life, in response to recent haredi critique of sex education
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, formerly of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, New Jersey (screen capture: YouTube)
April 14, 2016, 2:49 pm
Orthodox feminists slam US rabbi over campus rape comments
JOFA urges Steven Pruzansky to bow out of conference at his synagogue after he downplayed sexual assault problem
By Uriel Heilman
Yeshivat Maharat graduates at their ordination ceremony at Ramaz High School in New York City, June 16, 2013 (photo credit: Joe Winkler/JTA)
November 5, 2015, 3:58 pm
How do you solve a problem like a maharat?
Orthodox rabbis are divided on what to do with the cadre of knowledgeable and qualified women who wish to devote their lives to serving the Jewish community. Why some look to Chabad for answers
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Four fresh rabbis ordained in June 2015 by Har'el Beit Midrash. From left: Rabbis Rahel Berkovits, Meesh Hammer-Kossoy, Lev Eliezer Israel, and Ariel Evan Mayse. (Sigal Krimolovski)
June 11, 2015, 2:22 pm
At Orthodox women’s ordination, preaching a halacha of compassion
Head of new Jerusalem co-ed smicha program says ordaining women rabbis is ‘just the normal thing to do.’ But is Modern Orthodoxy ripe for such a radical step?
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Senior Rabbi of Rivardale Jewish Center Jonathan Rosenblatt speaks at a solidarity interfaith gathering attended by clergy, politicians, community leaders and activists at the Riverdale Jewish Center in Bronx, NY, Friday, May 22, 2009. (AP Photo/David Karp)
June 3, 2015, 4:46 pm
Why more reports of rabbinic sex abuse are a good thing
As the Bronx District Attorney opens an investigation into Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt, experts say lifting the shroud of silence is key to raising awareness and eliminating the problem of clergy misdeeds
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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