Elana Maryles Sztokman, co-author of the book “Educating in the Divine Image: Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools,” said the focus on Orthodox girls’ attire treats women like sex ...

A lot, it turns out. “This was actually traditional clothing for high-society Jewish women until even the mid-20th century,” Efrat Assaf-Shapira, a curator of the museum’s vast collection of ...

In many Hasidic Jewish communities ... men and women but is expressed differently in each case. For women, modesty extends beyond clothing to include behaviors, speech, and, significantly ...