Modern Orthodox

'All Afternoon': Feminism comes to River Ridge - book review

Kleinman notes in her novel 'All Afternoon,' set in 1978, that feminism was “slow in coming” to the fictional New Jersey town of River Ridge.

DISCO CEILING in Arlington, Texas. The 1970s saw the social revolution known as Women’s Lib.’
American Jews [Illustrative]

Israel educators must be models - opinion

REPRESENTATIVES OF the Chief Rabbinate of Israel cross Jaffa Street in Jerusalem as they deliver a kosher certificate to a local restaurant.

Time for Israel’s non-kosher public to push back - opinion

FORMER PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett addresses the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

Who does Israel belong to? Why Bennett’s model matters now - opinion


A thought on the emergence of modern Orthodoxy

“Observance of the Sabbath gradually was abandoned in the larger cities and increasingly in the small towns as well

‘TO CALL Rashi or Maimonides “Orthodox” would be an anachronism.’

Haredi-Modern Orthodox tug-of-war in 20th century US

In the years following World War II, approximately 140,000 Jewish refugees arrived in the United States, many of whom were Orthodox, and belonged to various hassidic groups.

When US Orthodoxy leaned right

10 years after beginning of 1st Orthodox rabbinical school for women

“I never thought being a rabbi was an option,” Hurwitz said. “It just wasn’t imaginable.”

Michelle Cohen Farber's Daf Yomi women group studying Talmud in Ran'ana.

Someone appears to have put dead chickens in a Jewish grave in Connecticut

Police are investigating the incident and said it appears someone dug it up by hand several days ago.

Chicken

Mayim Bialik embraces modest fashion line in Bet Shemesh

“I have decided that my sexual self is best reserved for private situations with those I am most intimate with,” she said in 2017. “I dress modestly."

Mayim Bialik embraces modest fashion line

Shofar to come to hundreds of parks throughout Israel

"Shofar in the Park" will bring the spirit of the festival to more than 200 parks, central squares, community centers and public spaces throughout Israel.

"Shofar in the Park," an initiave from Ohr Torah Stone "Yachad" progam, Tzohar Rabbinical Organization and the Israeli Corporation of Community Centers to take place for the third year in a row around public spaces in Israel.

Ordained Orthodox woman announces plans to open her own synagogue

Rabbanit Hadas Fruchter, 28, announced Saturday that she will open a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Philadelphia.

Female rabbi being ordained (illustration)

Leaked letter: Chief Rabbinate blacklisted dozens of U.S. Orthodox rabbis

Credentials of 124 rabbis ordained by Orthodox NY institution Yeshivat Chovevei Torah were ostensibly rejected by the Chief Rabbinate and Rabbinical Courts.

A man wears a kippa embroidered with US and Israeli flags

Hasidic volunteers kicked out of a major New York hospital

The hospital now bans all non-family-members and friends from patient floors.

Arthur Caplan, director of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University Langone Medical Center, is pictured at his home in Ridgefield, Connecticut July 23, 2015. Picture taken July 23.

As good as Jew

"It’s extremely distressing that Israel, supposedly the de facto homeland for all Jews, is controlled exclusively by the Orthodox rabbinate, which discriminates against non-Orthodox rabbis..."

Women in Hitech as percent of the EmployeesRabbi Floriane Chinsky with tefllin and tallit