(JTA) — Just days out from the presidential election, Shalva Perlman doesn’t know for sure how she will cast her ballot. The two issues on her mind: protecting abortion rights, and supporting Israel.
With Shabbat fast approaching, the sun was beginning to melt in the Jerusalem sky when the phone rang in Noa Lau’s kitchen. On the line was a woman who spoke in a voice still raw from the grief of a ...
Leah Vincent is a writer and activist. She is the author of Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood. The views expressed are solely her own. When we think of people fighting ...
A critical lack of secular education in Orthodox yeshivas affects tens of thousands of Jewish children, writes the executive ...
In the early hours of Friday, June 13, as the semifinals for the 48-hour hackathon at the Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) were underway, sirens signaled the start of the 12-day war between Iran ...
The Forward has an interesting report that focuses on how some Orthodox women in Brooklyn neighborhoods are trying to follow the Jewish law of tznius, or modesty, while still dressing fashionably. At ...
The Women of the Wall are unhappy again. Yes, they can read from the Torah, but now that have no scroll. It was damaged by dampness, and WoW blames the government for lack of proper storage. The Women ...
On a hill above a lush, flowering field, the smokestacks of Auschwitz pump human ashes into the atmosphere. It's not irony that artist Ita Mond is striving for in this watercolor she calls "Spring ...
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Feminist vs. Jewish: These women say NYC’s mayoral election is forcing a painful choice
Tracey Wells didn’t necessarily want to see Andrew Cuomo resign in disgrace as New York’s governor in 2021. “But I firmly believe that you believe women,” Wells, the owner of a recruitment firm, said, ...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo believes his track record on antisemitism and Israel speak for themselves in a New York City mayoral campaign where those issues have drawn significant attention. “He stands for the ...
CANTERBURY, England — Two prominent leaders of England’s Jewish community and a representative of the chief rabbi have joined in repudiating rabbis from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect in London that ...
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