Six of Maharat’s alumnae have founded their own communities, in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Haifa, Tel Aviv, London and Paris.

No surprise to see Trump invite an Orthodox rabbi to Washington, D.C., even while they make up a small percentage of Jews in America.

It will not be recognized by Orthodox Judaism because it is a nullity. (However, since Conservative Judaism’s youth movement, USY, now is open to inter-dating, your children would have access to ...

challenges persist across all streams of Judaism. Looking to other movements, we can better understand the obstacles faced by Orthodox women and the progress that remains to be made. When Sally ...

The new documentary 'Torah Tropical' shows the struggle of Latin American converts to be accepted by the broader Jewish ...

Housing Minister Yitzchak Goldknopf, the chairman of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party, welcomes the hostage deal ...

Rabbi Ari Berman of Teaneck, president of Yeshiva University in Manhattan, is among several religious leaders invited to the ...

Rabbi Moshe Herson, 90, who helped establish scores of New Jersey synagogues, died less than month after the death of his ...

Rav Hildesheimer (1820-1899) was an important pioneering modernizer of Orthodox Judaism in Germany and a founder of Modern Orthodox Judaism. Living at a time of considerable acculturation and the ...

it was important to them that the infant go through a Jewish court to formally convert to Judaism. Avrahami seeks to fulfill the Jewish legal and cultural expectations of Orthodox women ...