When Sara Hurwitz was a teenager, she took a test to see what kind of career she'd be best suited for. It told her she should become a member of the clergy. Her family laughed. "What was a young ...

(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 ...

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New York City Council candidate Amber Adler is no stranger to finding ways to connect with others amid public pressure to go away. As an Orthodox Jewish woman running for the southern Brooklyn ...

Tova Hartman is challenging some of the tenets of Orthodox Judaism by founding a traditional Orthodox synagogue that allows women unprecedented rights. When Tova Hartman moved from her native Montreal ...

(JTA) — When Alyza Lewin became a bat mitzvah in 1977, the fact that she had a ritual ceremony at all was still relatively revolutionary in Orthodox circles. But she took the rite of passage a step ...

BROOKLINE, Mass. (RNS)— A consortium of Orthodox Christian scholars, clergy and lay supporters meeting this week outside Boston proposed guidelines for the church to revive the ancient practice of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Orthodox Jewish woman is chronicling her search for “modest clothing” at popular department stores. “I’m an Orthodox Jew. I ...

Many among the secular, including me, grew up believing the sheitel, the ritual wig worn by married Orthodox and Hasidic ...

"Especially in New York City, which prides itself on being a safe place for people of all faiths, the DMV needs to do better," Sara Fellig's attorney told JNS.