The Lemaan Yilmedu Institute is pleased to announce the launch of Lemaan Yishmeu, a new weekly halacha podcast with Rabbi Yosef Y. Braun, Mara D’asra and member of the Crown Heights Beis Din.

In our generation, we are privileged to encounter women whose learning, commitment, and spiritual leadership who serve the ...

RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS: Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Romain and UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis answer questions on the religious and ethical ...

The recent corruption convictions of two prominent Orthodox Jewish leaders here — former Assemblyman Sheldon Silver and William Rapfogel, former head of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty — ...

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Women in Judaism face two major issues. On the one hand, there are thousands of years of Halacha and rabbinic texts regarding the laws and practices specific to Jewish women that they must follow. On ...

Even as Orthodox women take on clergy-like roles, the task of interpreting Jewish law has long been the exclusive domain of men. But a new group called Beit Hillel aims to bring down that barrier. An ...

JERUSALEM -- Must an observant Jew who has lost his sense of taste and smell because of covid-19 recite blessings for food and drink? Can one bend the metal nose piece of a surgical face mask on the ...

Your 2009 Tradition article generated significant controversy, including a response by Rabbi Eli Baruch Shulman. Looking back now, how has your thinking evolved since that exchange, and in what ways ...

“It’s my job to be a public person and I get that,” actress Mayim Bialik told a packed crowd at the Barnes & Noble book-signing of her third book, Girling Up: How to Be Strong, Smart and Spectacular ...