Dear friends, 
Welcome to our weekly update!

This week you'll find:
divrei Torah by women for Shabbat;
resources for the Three Weeks,
and our weekly reproductive justice update.
Divrei Torah on the Parshat Hashavua

This week, Jewish people around the Diaspora world
will read and study Parshat Pinchas.
(In Israel, it is Parshat Matot.)

Here are a few divrei Torah by women
about this week's Torah portion:



Resources for the Three Weeks
The Three Weeks mourning period
began last Sunday, July 17, with Shiv'a Asar B'Tammuz,
and concludes with Tish'a B'av (this year, Sunday, August 7). 

In anticipation of Tish'a B'av,
and with much gratitude to Rabbanit Bracha Jaffe,
we have posted recordings on the Jofa website of all five perakim (chapters) of Megillat Eicha, which you can use to learn how to leyn the megillah.

Access these recordings here:

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Following are additional resources
to help make the Three Weeks more meaningful:

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The following Jofa Journal from the Jofa archives addresses aspects and themes of individual and communal mourning, relevant to this time period:


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Following are selections from the extensive collection of
Sefaria, the online Torah library:


Reproductive Justice Info

Jofa continues working, together with numerous other concerned Jewish organizations, to raise awareness, advocate, and provide resources, on the vital and urgent issue of reproductive justice, to help ensure women’s religious liberty to make their own choices about their own bodies.

Please visit Jofa's Reproductive Justice
S.A.F.E. (Support, Advocacy, Funding, and Education)
Resource page, at Reproductive Rights | Jofa.org,
which is regularly updated with additional information.

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This week, we highlight the following:

Times of Israel Podcast:
July 15, 2022

Forward Article:
June 28, 2022

Abortion Access Front Advocacy Training:

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Please keep watching for updates and information
on supporting and advocating for the unique needs and concerns of Orthodox women, within the broader Jewish community.
If you would like to honor, remember, or recognize someone,
appreciate Jofa's resources, or support Jofa's important work,

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Wishing all a Shabbat Shalom!