The only non-Christian speaker at a mass prayer rally on the National Mall on Sunday was an Orthodox rabbi who got the crowd applauding against antisemitism. Rabbi Meir Soloveichik leads New York City ...

After years of court battles, Israel will allow women to take the exams men take to become rabbis. It is a step toward expanding women's leadership roles in Orthodox Judaism.

Yeshivat Chovevei Torah — an all-male Orthodox Jewish rabbinical school in Riverdale, New York — has ordained its first out gay rabbi, Tadhg Cleary. Cleary’s June 12 ordination ceremony came six years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rabbi Sholom Dovber Lipskar spent most of his life bringing positive change and spreading kindness to the Jewish community and ...

(JTA) — Rabbi Julius Berman, who led the Orthodox Union and a myriad of other prominent Jewish communal organizations across the Orthodox and secular Jewish world, has died at 90. Born in Lithuania in ...

He made a home in the cracks of a system that had not ruled about his gender. In those cracks, he found meaning.

Memoirs of leaving the Orthodox Jewish world have become a genre with their own familiar arc. The protagonist flees an oppressive religious world, is ostracized by family and former friends, ...