New Torah L’am scholarships on offer to Jewish women
The Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Australia is to partner with leading Jewishly UK to offer the Torah L’Am Course.
Miriam Lorie, the UK based teacher of the Torah L’Am course
This course will equip students to open the Torah at any page, understand the significance of any given passage to the wider context, analyse a passage and step into their own personal resonance with and response to that passage.
At the end of the course, students deliver their own D’var Torah, developed over the course through assignments that gradually build towards this final presentation.
The course will be offered on zoom for women from all Australian states and territories and has never previously been offered in Australia.
“This is a serious Torah study course with assignments and homework. I know that Australian women, who have always been interested in new opportunities to learn Torah will enjoy this opportunity,” said JOFA president Nomi Kaltmann.
Since launching almost two years ago, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Australia has provided opportunities to Australian women that actively promote leadership and support women’s Torah learning, public speaking, teaching and engagement. To date, 170 Australian women from five Australian States and Territories have received scholarships to complete training courses related to Torah learning and Jewish women’s leadership. JOFA Australia has also launched the first-ever orthodox women’s speaker bureau, with more than 80 Australian women from across the country listed on a publicly available bureau.
Nomi added: “Australian women deserve the best opportunities to study Torah and we are thrilled that JOFA Australia
The Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, seeks to expand the spiritual, ritual and intellectual opportunities for women within the framework of halakha (Jewish law), by advocating meaningful participation for women in family life, synagogues, houses of learning and Jewish communal organisations to the fullest extent possible.
