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JOFA is partnering with Hillels on college campuses to bring dynamic and exciting programs to their Jewish student bodies. The goals of the programs are:

  • To help campuses with large Jewish student bodies create a forum for open dialogue about Jewish issues in an environment respectful of diversity.
  • To help create, and allow for, a space for Jewish feminist thought and practices, for both men and women, within the campus community.

If you are interested in bringing one of JOFA's college programs to your campus community contact us at
888-550-JOFA or julie.blum@jofa.org.

Past Programs:

RESISTANCE AND ACCOMMODATION: CREATING HALAKHIC PARTNERSHIPS
An evening of discussion about how creative tensions between modern Orthodox Judaism and feminism can lead to unexpected perspectives and beliefs. Featuring Tova Hartman and a dialogue of the halakhot regarding Partnership Minyanim.

Brandeis University
Sunday, March 2, 2008 - 5:30pm-8:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Hadassah Brandeis Institute

AGUNAH
The halakhic roots of the problem, the gravity and dimension of the problem, and the debate over proposed solutions.

Binghamton University
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Presenter: Susan Aranoff

VOICES OF ORTHODOXY
Binghamton University
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Presenter: Devorah Zlochower

A FEMALE PRESIDENT OR FEMALE ORTHODOX RABBI...
WHICH WILL COME FIRST?
Explore innovative forms of leadership and changing conceptions of rabbinic authority within Orthodoxy.

University of Maryland Hillel
Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 6:00pm
Presenter: Sara Hurwitz

MEKUDESHET SCREENINGS
This groundbreaking documentary, by Anat Zuria, chronicles the struggle of three young Israeli women to obtain a get. The agunah, the wife trapped in a dead marriage, is one of the most painful challenges facing the Jewish community.

Click here for more information about Mekudeshet.

Social Justice Society of Yeshiva University
Tuesday November 27, 2007 - 7:30pm
Schottenstein Cultural Center
239 East 34th Street
Panalists: Rabbi Yona Reiss, Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin, Josh Ross, Susan Rosenfeld, and Audrey Trachtman

Minyan Urim at Yale University
Sunday November 5, 2006 - 7:00pm
Presenter: Susan Aranoff

Brandeis Univeristy
Wednesday April 26, 2006 - 7pm
Panelists: Prof. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Dr. Lisa Fishbayne, Rachell Maidenbaum Gober, and Sigal Landesberg
Co-sponsored by the Hadassah Brandeis Institute
Shown as part of JEWISHFILM.2006, the National Center for Jewish Film's 9th Annual Film Festival


University of Maryland Hillel
Wednesday March 29, 2006 - 6:30pm
Panelists: Dr. Susan Aranoff & Josh Ross

Penn Hillel
Sunday November 13, 2005 - 5:30pm
Panalists: Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin & Josh Ross

Columbia/Barnard Hillel
Monday October 10, 2005 - 7:30pm
Panelists: Dr. Susan Aranoff & Josh Ross

SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE

Penn Hillel
November 18-19, 2005
Scholar in Residence: Jennie Rosenfeld





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