Daphne Lazar Price, at The Blogs

May 14, 2024, 12:20 AM

Reflections on Yom HaZikaron 5784 and Keeping the Stories Alive

My spouse and I attended the Israeli embassy’s official Yom HaZikaron commemoration event on Sunday evening. Hosted at a highly secured location, the venue’s hallways were lined with pictures of dozens of people, young and old, who made the...

Apr 28, 2024, 12:25 PM

I’m in Israel for Passover. This is how Israelis are celebrating

It’s almost the end of the 7-day celebration of Passover. I can now look back and tell you how Israelis celebrated -- are celebrating -- this holiday. We booked our tickets to travel to Israel for Passover months ago. Our...

Jan 25, 2024, 10:21 PM

Holding Each Other Up

Last January, during a Shabbat morning’s women’s tefillah (prayer), I stood at the bima, arms outstretched, holding up an open Torah scroll doing hagbah for the congregation. On either side of me there were strong, proud women, lending their...

Oct 20, 2023, 1:04 AM

Israel: There’s no place I’d rather be

Everyone who has ever visited has a million “only in Israel” experiences. They are usually some combination of bumping into someone not seen in years, a mistranslation that leads to a comical outcome, or some deeply held local cultural...

Jun 23, 2023, 7:53 AM

One Year Later: Reflections on the Dobbs Decision and What Remains at Stake

As we near the one year anniversary of the Dobbs decision – which overturned federal constitutional protections of privacy and abortion rights that have stood since the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision – I am taking stock of...

Jun 22, 2023, 11:49 PM

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Why this Passover is like no other

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire caused after a rocket fired from Lebanon hit near the Israeli town of Shlomi, April 6, 2023. (Fadi Amun/Flash90)

Jews must be able to live free of fear, including in Israel, where rockets from Lebanon are antisemitic violence, plain and simple

Feb 23, 2023, 7:59 PM

Creating a cultural ‘V’Nahafoch Hu’

On the Shabbat before Purim, congregations around the world will read Parshat Zachor (Deuteronomy 25:17 - 19). In these three verses, we are commanded not once, but twice, to recall a dangerous attack on our people: We are told...

Feb 2, 2023, 3:56 PM

Growing in the land

Growing up in Canada, and living in the mid-Atlantic, Tu BiShvat never quite aligned with our local seasons. But during my most recent (extended!) trip to Israel, I experienced the seasons differently. On any given day, I would travel for...

Jan 5, 2023, 1:40 PM

The 70 faces of Torah include women

“There are seventy faces of the Torah.” - Midrash, Bamidbar Rabbah, 13:16 Someone recently asked me, regarding women in Orthodox communities: “Aren’t women more empowered than ever before?” As the Executive Director of Jofa (Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance), whose mission is...

About Me

Daphne Lazar Price is the Executive Director of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA) and an adjunct professor of Jewish Law at Georgetown University Law Center. She is active in the Orthodox community in her hometown of Silver Spring, MD, where she lives with her husband and two children.