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 ...

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 ...

(JTA) — Dozens of Orthodox rabbis have issued “A Call for Moral Clarity, Responsibility, and a Jewish Orthodox Response in the Face of the Gaza Humanitarian Crisis,” in an addition to a recent cascade ...

From gender roles to religious authority, American-trained leaders transformed key debates in Israeli Judaism.

(RNS) — Orthodox Judaism, both in the United States and Israel, has typically espoused a right-wing political orientation and unconditional support for Israel. These Jews beg to differ. (RNS) — Over ...

A haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, leader once joked to me that “few people leave Orthodoxy, but every one of them writes a book about it.” It was a sardonic comment about popular works by Jews documenting ...

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 ...

Melinda Strauss, a content creator known for explaining modern Orthodox Jewish life to 1.5 million TikTok followers, is ...

The challenge is not only how to remain financially afloat today, but ensuring that Orthodox middle-class life in America ...

Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. (JTA) — Dozens of Orthodox rabbis have ...