JERUSALEM (RNS) — In 2019, Sarah Segal-Katz was one of six Orthodox Jewish women who petitioned Israel’s High Court of Justice for the right to take the same accreditation exams the Chief Rabbinate ...

Plaintiffs Lisa Sobel, right, Sarah Baron, center, and Jessica Kalb, left. (Kentucky Lantern photo by Sarah Ladd) A Court of Appeals panel has ruled that one of three Jewish women suing the state has ...

(RNS) — The ruling does not call for the strictly Orthodox rabbinate to ordain women as rabbis but opens up to women the body’s licensing exams that test in a variety of areas of Jewish law. (RNS) — ...

J ERUSALEM (RNS) — Over the years, many of the young Orthodox women studying at the Midreshet Lindenbaum seminary yearned to join a combat unit in the Israeli army but knew that staying religiously ...

Jewish teachers, fed up with their own unions spate of antisemitic actions in recent years, notched a win this summer when the National Education Association reversed a decision to sever ties with the ...

Rabbis’ access to Jewish inmates is being restricted in state prisons, according to Rabbi Moishe Mayir Vogel. Vogel is the ...

This report investigates disparities between non-Orthodox Jewish men and women with respect to Jewish religious and communal engagement. The study draws on survey data from five different sources ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Once men and women take the same exam, ‘every community can decide for themselves what kind of teacher or leadership model they want,’ said Michelle Shelemay Dvir, a religious ...