Taking on more roles in synagogue means “I have more of a say in how things work,” says a graduate of a progressive all-girls high school in Jerusalem. This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen ...

SAR High School in Riverdale, New York seeks to balances religious values with honest talk about premarital sex, masturbation and pornography. This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Once men and women take the same exam, ‘every community can decide for themselves what kind of teacher or leadership model they want,’ said Michelle Shelemay Dvir, a religious ...

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 ...

A new picture book is telling the story of a young girl who takes her Jewish faith into her own hands, one swing of a plastic white ball at a time. Ping-Pong Shabbat recounts the true story of Estee ...

(RNS) — About 100 Orthodox rabbis from the U.S. and Israel say the practice is harmful and doesn't work. (RNS) — A group of Orthodox rabbis from the U.S. and Israel issued a strongly worded letter ...

(RNS) — Over the past year, a group of mostly modern Orthodox Jews has met in living rooms on the Upper West Side of Manhattan to discuss Israel’s devastating war in Gaza and to hear from Jews and ...

Yeshivat Chovevei Torah — an all-male Orthodox Jewish rabbinical school in Riverdale, New York — has ordained its first out gay rabbi, Tadhg Cleary. “We want to be giving semicha to him for the ...