[9][10][11] In November 2019, the organization announced an initiative to pay American Orthodox Jewish synagogues an annual grant of up to $10,000 to hire women as spiritual leaders.

[16] JOFA supports women's reproductive rights, including abortion in consultation with their physicians and personal Halakhic advisers.

[17] The Australian branch of JOFA supports the training of Jewish women as experts in the ritual laws of Niddah through a scholarship program.

JOFA also sought to address specific issues related to Orthodox Jewish women in marriage and divorce proceedings.

The organizers of the event were four Orthodox Jewish women from New York: Esther Farber (1935-2003), Bat Sheva Marcus, Ronnie Becher, and Blu Greenberg.

At the time of JOFA's founding, Women's Tefillah Network had more than 40 such member groups in North America, Israel, England, and Australia.

[37] In the fall of 2015, the Agudath Israel of America widely denounced moves to ordain women and declared entities affiliated with Open Orthodoxy, such as JOFA, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, and Yeshivat Maharat, as not a form of Torah Judaism, similar to other dissident movements throughout Jewish history in having rejected basic tenets of Judaism.