The JewFem blog is written by the award-winning writer Dr. Elana Maryles Sztokman, former Executive Director of JOFA, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance. Elana's books include The Men’s Section: Orthodox Jewish Men in an Egalitarian World, which won the 2012 National Jewish Book Council Award for Women's Studies, Educating in the Divine Image: Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools, which won the 2013 National Jewish Book Council Award for Education (co-authored with Chaya Gorsetman), and the forthcoming The War on Women in Israel: How Religious Radicalism is Stifling the Voice of a Nation Elana writes frequently at The Forward, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, Lilith, and more.
Welcome to a new world. I was raised very traditional. It took me forty years from the time I said as a young girl, I want to be a rabbi, to find my way to a transdenominational rabbinical school. It opened a world of Jewish texture that allows me, thanks to my amazing Talmud teacher, to consider the intent of the law over the letter of the law. May your journey be joyful and fulfilling as you begin the new year with new vision. L'Shannah tovah umetukah
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