During the 1950s and 1960s, when I was growing up, there were 1,000 Jews in all of Palm Beach County. There were no Jews in ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Once men and women take the same exam, ‘every community can decide for themselves what kind of teacher or leadership model they want,’ said Michelle Shelemay Dvir, a religious ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — In 2019, Sarah Segal-Katz was one of six Orthodox Jewish women who petitioned Israel’s High Court of Justice for the right to take the same accreditation exams the Chief Rabbinate ...