the women stayed publicly silent. They had promised not to reveal their experiences or their criticism when they left the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, one after being fired and the other ...

BEST OF 2019: Photographer Federica Valabrega takes us inside the secretive lives of Orthodox Jewish women from around the globe, from New York to Jerusalem. Video by Sebastián Díaz Aguirre ...

Congregation Sha’arei Orah installed its first spiritual leader late last month, with Rabbanit Leah Sarna taking over as one of five women serving as solo spiritual leaders of Orthodox synagogues ...

Step one: Open up a yeshiva, Yeshivat Maharat, to ordain Orthodox women. Step two: Give them rigorous training to be impactful leaders for the Jewish community. Step three: Ordain them and place ...

There was such a lack of respect for women, and the guys I was meeting seemed so disingenuous and focused on the wrong things. I felt that they certainly didn’t care to get to know me as a person, let ...

RNS is solely responsible for this story. Participants at the retreat, put on by Eshel, a New York-based nonprofit with a ...

These sentiments are echoed in the divide in the Jewish communities’ feelings about a range of issues including Israel and the treatment of American Jews. The majority of Orthodox Jews approved ...

As I explained there, we’re not supposed to dress (or act) in a sexual way in a public setting. That’s just not what traditional Jewish modesty is about. If you want to say that there is a mystique ...

A senior member of an Orthodox Jewish sect wanted for alleged human trafficking has been arrested by Interpol agents in Guatemala. Other members of the Lev Tahor sect are accused of sexual abuse of ...

Police and prosecutors in Guatemala have arrested two leaders of the Lev Tahor Orthodox Jewish sect accusing them of human trafficking and arranged marriages involving underage girls. Guatemalan ...