Orthodox judaism

The liberal Jewish movements have undergone dramatic shifts in their approach to gay, lesbian and transgender Jews in the past two ...

This past December, a Modern Orthodox Jewish high school in Riverdale, N.Y., started allowing two female students to put on tefillin, small black...

Forty-five minutes. That’s how long it took me to say the entire grace after meals in Hebrew the first time I tried. I sat at my parents’ kitchen table and labored over each foreign syllable, determined to finish it no matter how ridiculously long it took or how weird it seemed. This is fairly representative […]

One photographer set out to document their growing community.

Karin Brooke’s post on Kveller about losing her daughter to religious fundamentalism struck a chord with me for a few reasons. First, I am technically a baal teshuvah–a person who took on Jewish observance later in life. I struggled a lot in college regarding how to introduce my parents (especially my mother, who was raised […]

All of the Abrahamic religions owe their origins to Jews.

The annual pilgrimage brings both prayers and partying to Uman. Many have been undeterred by official pleas to stay away this year

London's insular, close-knit Haredi Jews live by age-old traditions, yet are flourishing in the face of the 21st-century pressures