NEW YORK (AP) — Frieda Vizel left an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect in New York in a crisis of faith at 25. But instead of cutting ties, she became a successful online personality and guide to the ...
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Once men and women take the same exam, ‘every community can decide for themselves what kind of teacher or leadership model they want,’ said Michelle Shelemay Dvir, a religious ...
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Haredi women assist other like-minded women in joining the military, with exciting new avenues of exploration, and without ...
As New York City inaugurated its first Muslim mayor, two cities in the United States also made history with the swearing-in of their first Orthodox Jewish mayors. While Orthodox mayors have been ...
Rabbi Julius Berman, who led the Orthodox Union and a myriad of other prominent Jewish communal organizations across the Orthodox and secular Jewish world, has died at 90. Born in Lithuania in 1935 to ...