KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife ...

Orthodox Jewish women attend an event celebrating the completion of the 7 1/2-year cycle of daily study of the Talmud, the central text of Jewish law, on Jan. 5, 2020, in Jerusalem. AP Photo/Tsafrir ...

A new book details one Orthodox Jewish woman's journey from married to a man to coming out as a lesbian. By 19, Sara – nee Malka – Glass got everything an ultra-religious Jewish woman from the insular ...

BROOKLINE, Mass. (RNS)— A consortium of Orthodox Christian scholars, clergy and lay supporters meeting this week outside Boston proposed guidelines for the church to revive the ancient practice of ...

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Yeshiva University recently received a transformative $10 million gift from Ann and Jeremy Pava of West Hartford, CT, to ...

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 ...

The Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) released its 10th annual Statistical Report on Ultra-Orthodox Society on Sunday, detailing what editors described as a decade-long stall in the integration of ...

When people picture a rabbi, they may imagine a man standing in front of a congregation in a synagogue. But “rabbi” means much more than that. For example, a rabbi could be a teacher, a nonprofit ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When people picture a rabbi, they may imagine a man standing in front of a congregation in a synagogue. But “rabbi” means much more than that. For example, a rabbi could be a ...