(New York Jewish Week) — Around 1 a.m. Wednesday night, Brooklyn-based activist Adina Sash received a phone call she had long awaited: Malky Berkowitz, 29, a fellow Orthodox woman, had finally ...

Judaism’s most holy time is now. The ten days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur (known as the Days of Awe) is one of reflection, forgiveness, and renewal. But when you’re going through a divorce, ...

Orthodox women activists are pledging to withhold sex from their husbands as they escalate a public campaign to help one of their own obtain a religious divorce from her husband after four years of ...

MARKHAM, ON, Feb. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Feldstein Family Law Group has released a new episode of Ask Andrew, the firm's monthly live Q&A program hosted by founder Andrew Feldstein. This episode, ...

Concerns about the state intruding into a religious matter led the Senate to reject a bill Friday that would have required Orthodox Jewish men to grant their wives a religious divorce if they were ...

A wife testified Thursday that a bill would free women “trapped” in Jewish marriages, but her husband blasted it as a constitutional and religious violation. The legislation “releases captives,” said ...

Couples seeking divorce may embark on a long road, which can be paved with bitterness and lead to financial ruin. While a divorce is unavoidably painful, the suffering can be mitigated. To that end, ...

Professor Deidre Butler, Carleton University, Ottawa, a member of the HBI's Academic Advisory Committee, is completing a book based on an interdisciplinary ethnographic study that seeks to understand ...

The idea of the “sex strike” originates from Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, the Greek comedy where the women of Athens refrained from sleeping with their husbands in order to pressure them to end the ...