In the 1950s, the future of American Orthodox Judaism looked so gloomy that the prominent sociologist Marshall Sklare predicted its imminent extinction. Sklare’s ominous forecast could not have proved ...

A new Modern Orthodox day school is opening in Baltimore three months after another shut down. The Ohr Chadash Academy, which is opening Sept. 1, will be located at the Park Heights Jewish Community ...

This week, thousands of Jews, from Modern Orthodox communities to Litvish yeshivos, will open their weekly Mishpacha Magazine ...

Meral Tubi and her Israeli husband Kfir never imagined they’d one day leave their Los Angeles home to move to Texas. But ...

(RNS) Women who would be Orthodox rabbis had a major setback Friday (October 30) when the highest religious body for Modern Orthodox Jews ruled against their ordination. The Rabbinical Council of ...

Close to 30 Jews met recently at a private home on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, sitting on borrowed folding chairs to hear Karin Loevy, an Israeli legal scholar at New York University. She spoke about ...

Shortly after The Idea School opened in the fall of 2017, students lobbied to change the dress code. Some of the boys didn’t want to wear the collared shirts required by most modern Orthodox schools.

Ziva Mann remembers how joyful and smiley her daughter was as a child — the family even gave her the nickname “Giggles.” “She was just sunshine,” Mann said. That changed around second grade, when her ...

Coalition bill also requires civil court judges to pass test on Jewish law, though that clause expected to be nixed; MKs also ...

Zionists draw on the military imagery of Hanukkah, while others look to the synagogue prayers that focus on the miracle of ...