Yeshiva University, the storied modern Orthodox Jewish university in New York, is in the midst of a legal battle over its refusal to recognize the YU Pride Alliance, an undergraduate club. While YU ...

Close to 30 Jews met recently at a private home on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, sitting on borrowed folding chairs to hear Karin Loevy, an Israeli legal scholar at New York University. She spoke about ...

A new Modern Orthodox day school is opening in Baltimore three months after another shut down. The Ohr Chadash Academy, which is opening Sept. 1, will be located at the Park Heights Jewish Community ...

Judaism is a culture and tradition, no less than a religion. You can come to prayer at the synagogue on Friday, but arrive by car. You can celebrate Hanukkah and celebrate Christmas. The connection to ...

Bucking the political norms of Orthodox Judaism, Rabbi Max Davis signed a letter condemning ICE for "wreaking havoc across our state." ...

A new Center for Jewish History exhibit spans five decades of images — from the heyday of the havurah movement to the fading ...

Natan Sharansky, an Israeli politician and former Soviet dissident, headlined a forum on Monday at SAR Academy. The Modern ...

A new survey of American Jews who have left Orthodox Judaism asks tough questions of the community as it describes the complicated web of factors causing people to leave the fold. Published by the ...

Ziva Mann remembers how joyful and smiley her daughter was as a child — the family even gave her the nickname “Giggles.” “She was just sunshine,” Mann said. That changed around second grade, when her ...