Ana Chairez, a Nebraska Medicine employee and cancer survivor, supports patients by helping them find wigs that restore their ...

The wig-burning would not only shake the foundations of ultra-Orthodox life, it would also have a profound impact on the billion-dollar trade in human hair. As Emma Tarlo documents so brilliantly in ...

SCRANTON — Elizabeth Mitchko wants to give women their dream hair, even if they struggle to grow it themselves. The 32-year-old longtime stylist at the popular Lavish Scranton salon, spa and boutique ...

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 ...

About one-third of women experience hair loss at some time in their lives. For women who have been through menopause, it is two-thirds. Research shows it can truly affect a woman's well-being. That's ...

At the South Philadelphia Shtiebel, a 5-foot-tall partition, called a "mechitza," separates the men from the women in accordance with ancient tradition. But when it comes time for the sermon, Rabbanit ...

REPORTER JASMINE RODRIGUEZ BRINGS US THIS STORY. WHAT STARTED OFF AS A WAY TO SERVE THE JEWISH ORTHODOX COMMUNITY HAS NOW TURNED IN TO A SAFE SPACE, NOT ONLY FOR THAT COMMUNITY, BUT FOR ALL WOMEN ...

A Serenity wig on display. Photo courtesy Serenity Wig Salon. A decade ago, Chami Saks realized she had a knack for hair as she curled and styled wigs for friends and family at her kitchen table in ...

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill is sending letters in support of new mothers in Russia as part of a new project designed to encourage pregnant women to keep their babies, according to a Russian ...

'Coils to Locs' is representing for Black women in the medical wig industry. Dianne Austin and Pamela Shaddock started “Coils to Locs” to fill the medical wig industry void. After Austin experienced ...

PLANO, Texas — On Saturday, Silk or Lace, a wig shop in Plano, will be hosting a Day of Kindness, providing free wigs and hair toppers to women in need. Founder Suran Yoo said she never thought she ...