When I first met Ben Baader more than a decade ago, I was doing interviews for a PhD dissertation on the lives of transgender Jews with an Orthodox background. Orthodox Jewish life is deeply gendered.
After years of court battles, Israel will allow women to take the exams men take to become rabbis. It is a step toward expanding women's leadership roles in Orthodox Judaism.
A California judge ruled that Kars4Kids can no longer run its current ads in the state, calling the organization's ties to a ...
The incumbent Democrat is moving to lock down a key block and ahead of Jewish showdown with Republican rival Bruce Blakeman ...
CCTV footage shows the white Mercedes-Benz rapidly accelerate towards the red light on Leicester Road in Salford - home to a ...
Memoirs of leaving the Orthodox Jewish world have become a genre with their own familiar arc. The protagonist flees an oppressive religious world, is ostracized by family and former friends, ...
Some are embracing the boost for Judaism's central practice. Others say it's an avatar of Christian nationalism.
When we think about “off-the-derech” Jews, those who have left Orthodoxy behind, we tend to think of rebellious youths in ...
A federal HUD complaint filed by the Brandeis Center accuses Williams College of discriminating against an Orthodox Jewish ...
Police in Toronto have arrested a man they say shot at “visibly identifiable members of the Jewish community” on two occasions a week apart. Ruslan Novruzov, 18, is charged with assault with a weapon ...
A California judge has ordered Kars4Kids to stop airing its ubiquitous jingle in the state unless the Jewish car-donation ...