Orthodox women activists are pledging to withhold sex from their husbands as they escalate a public campaign to help one of their own obtain a religious divorce from her husband after four years of ...

Perhaps one of the most misunderstood tenets of Jewish law, the mikvah, or ritual monthly immersion by women after menstruation, is one of those things people don’t talk about. Among Orthodox Jewish ...

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 ...

It’s a movement to stop the schtup. In a rare display of public protest, women in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community are railing against a traditional practice that makes it hard for married women ...

A magnificent new mikvah was recently inaugurated in the southern Russian city of Sochi, in a moving and uplifting ceremony ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Congregation Dor Tikvah, an Orthodox synagogue in West Ashley, has been working on building a brand-new Mikvah for several months now and is quickly making progress. This ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - For the first time in over 50 years, the Charleston Jewish community is getting a new Mikvah. A Mikvah is a pool of water that is used for ritual cleansing and purification ...