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 — ...

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 in ordinary circumstances, we discuss with single women the challenges of raising a child without a father — including ...

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 ...

In a new and precedent-setting halachic ruling published in the recent edition of the Tehumin journal, Rabbi Yaakov Ariel rules that one can wrap tefillin (phylacteries), wave the Four Species on ...

mitzvot Jew who once identified as gay but now accepts the authority of halacha regarding human sexuality and has been “openly celibate” for more than a year.) ...

Rabbi Seth Farber, Founder and Chairman of ITIM, spoke with Arutz Sheva-Israel National News, on the situation of the religious establishment in Israel today and the positive changes and improvements ...

Abraham and Isaac — or, as some would have it, Ibrahim and Ishmael — took center stage when a panel including Muslim imams and some of America’s most prominent Modern Orthodox rabbis discussed their ...

In Torah Judaism, gender is a cornerstone of God’s creation. Halacha, the Jewish legal tradition, assigns roles and ...