Step one: Open up a yeshiva, Yeshivat Maharat, to ordain Orthodox women. Step two: Give them rigorous training to be impactful leaders for the Jewish community. Step three: Ordain them and place ...
the women stayed publicly silent. They had promised not to reveal their experiences or their criticism when they left the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, one after being fired and the other ...
These sentiments are echoed in the divide in the Jewish communities’ feelings about a range of issues including Israel and the treatment of American Jews. The majority of Orthodox Jews approved ...
BEST OF 2019: Photographer Federica Valabrega takes us inside the secretive lives of Orthodox Jewish women from around the globe, from New York to Jerusalem. Video by Sebastián Díaz Aguirre ...
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and women have been largely exempt from army service since the establishment of Israel in 1948, while secular and traditional Jewish men and women must serve for a minimum of ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — An East Tennessee man faces multiple charges after allegedly entering a Jewish community center dressed to to “appear as an orthodox Jewish Rabbi,” according to the ...
Rav Hildesheimer (1820-1899) was an important pioneering modernizer of Orthodox ... men cannot see women during prayers, and its ruling that it is forbidden to change any Jewish custom or ...
Mitchell Silk recalls the immense responsibility of working just steps from the White House, representing as an Orthodox Jew, where he faced a critical national security challenge. While navigating a ...
Between February 5 and March 6 2020, the OU surveyed more than 2,300 single Orthodox Jew from 18 to 82 years old who were users of eight Jewish dating apps or part of singles’ groups.