Breaking from tradition, Orthodox Jewish women are leading synagogues ‘I am blessed and so excited to be able to do what I was made to do’ ...

Rabbi Yaakov Robinson, who works at Beis Medrash Mikor Hachaim, an Orthodox synagogue in Chicago, said that for Orthodox Jews, the act of gathering in a synagogue is “essential,” much like the ...

Orthodox Jewish sect in New York in a crisis of faith at 25. But instead of cutting ties, she became a successful online personality and guide to the tight-knit world she had been raised in.She gives ...

The only other township-approved Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Jackson is the Royal Grove Shul, greenlit by the Planning Board in February 2018. But the East Veterans Highway project has only ...

News His synagogue barred him because he’s gay. Now, he protests outside each Shabbat. ‘I just want a shul where everyone who is Jewish is welcome,’ says Brian Mandel, a social worker.

The vote leaves only one other synagogue with mixed-gender seating under the umbrella of the Orthodox Union. Congregation Beis Medrash Hagadol-Beth Joseph, or BMH-BJ, is an 800-family synagogue in ...

Along with another initiative to bolster tracking of antisemitic incidents experienced by Orthodox Jews, the effort is meant to help Orthodox Jews feel safe — including on Shabbat and holidays.

Congregation B’nai Israel Ohev Zedek in Philadelphia turned 100 on May 22. Yet the Orthodox synagogue is “a very young shul now,” said Michael Bohm, a member since 1976. What Bohm means is that, among ...

Most Orthodox Jews maintain that the Bible forbids homosexual relationships and identities, ... felt unwelcome in synagogue or wrestled with depression and even suicidal thoughts.

While synagogues like Fruchter’s might not be permitted in the Orthodox Union — the organization questioned, but decided not to sanction, Herzfeld’s synagogue and several others that already ...

A socially distanced outdoor service at the Green Road Synagogue, a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Cleveland, Ohio, in August 2020. (Courtesy of Rabbi Binyamin Blau) (JTA) – At the Jewish Center ...

Serving as clergy where women never have, some call themselves rosh kehilah, meaning “head of the community.” Some go by maharat. Rabbanit. Rabba. And even rabbi. That’s right. Orthodox ...