The Amish are a unique community known for their simple, traditional way of life, strong religious beliefs, and distinct cultural practices. Amish women play vital roles within their communities, ...

Each Amish community (or “district”) develops its own, unwritten rules of conduct, called the Ordnung.Representatives from several dozen families meet twice a year to discuss possible changes ...

We tend to think of the Amish as one united people, but there are many different ways of being Amish. Each community, and there are dozens throughout the U.S. and the world, has its own Ordnung ...

The Amish Ordnung, the code that governs life together, turns out to be not a cage but a pathway, leading to a distinct kind of freedom. But the older world still speaks powerfully.

While Amish rules (called the Ordnung) differ among settlements--some of the strictest ban all motors--Amish leaders allow changes that make shops more competitive if they don't threaten basic values.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Dance Theater, along with devised theater students from the Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance; guest artists; community members; and The Mahoning ...

Torah Bontrager, the founder and director of the nonprofit Amish Heritage Foundation, (left) and Joan Van Dyke, an Indiana University of Pennsylvania dance professor who created and choreographed ...

In Ohio's Amish communities, most children don't go to school past the eighth grade. One non-practicing Amish woman is raising awareness about it through an unusual platform: ballet.

Torah Bontrager, the founder and director of the nonprofit Amish Heritage Foundation, speaks about a scene from "Ordnung, An Amish Ballet" during a performance at The HÜG Place in Akron on Friday ...