JERUSALEM (RNS) — Over the years, many of the young Orthodox women studying at the Midreshet Lindenbaum seminary yearned to join a combat unit in the Israeli army but knew that staying religiously ...

In the mid-1990s, the late Sen. Joseph Lieberman, then an Orthodox Jewish Connecticut Democrat, and Sen. Daniel Coats, an ...

Some students at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University’s women’s school, say their values are in tension this election. Just days out from the presidential election, Shalva Perlman doesn’t know ...

(JTA) — Just days out from the presidential election, Shalva Perlman doesn’t know for sure how she will cast her ballot. The two issues on her mind: protecting abortion rights, and supporting Israel.

Leah Vincent is a writer and activist. She is the author of Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood. The views expressed are solely her own. When we think of people fighting ...

Rabbi Moshe Hauer was the executive vice president of the Orthodox Union and was widely known and admired across ...

In the early hours of Friday, June 13, as the semifinals for the 48-hour hackathon at the Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) were underway, sirens signaled the start of the 12-day war between Iran ...

Last December, Mendel Epstein, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi in Brooklyn, was convicted of conspiring to kidnap and torture men who had refused to give their wives a Jewish divorce, known as a “get.” The ...

Newly incorporated by the Greenpoint Shul, a mom-and-pop, twice-a-week school aims to serve all of North Brooklyn's Jewish ...

On a hill above a lush, flowering field, the smokestacks of Auschwitz pump human ashes into the atmosphere. It's not irony that artist Ita Mond is striving for in this watercolor she calls "Spring ...

With Shabbat fast approaching, the sun was beginning to melt in the Jerusalem sky when the phone rang in Noa Lau’s kitchen. On the line was a woman who spoke in a voice still raw from the grief of a ...