In many Orthodox Jewish settings, including the vast Haredi world, strict adherence to Torah and Jewish law has kept many ...

The Bronx, like its Jewish community, didn’t disappear, but became something new, first for the worse, then for the better.

A new book charts the rise and fall of a short-lived haven for working-class immigrants and their soon-to-be upwardly mobile ...

The Jewish population of Judea and Galilee was divided into three religious groups, two major and one minor. The largest group by numbers were the Pharisees but they were not a majority.

Yesterday, it was Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, President of Yeshiva University, a modern Orthodox ... The divide between Orthodox and non-Orthodox streams of Judaism is now beyond the confines of keeping ...

On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order recognizing only two sexes, male and female, and invalidating anyone’s deviation from their sex as a “false claim” spurred by ...

10, he provides keys to identify modern day "Spiritual Amalek" ("Zera ... whether Jewish pro-LBGT organizations or those who fight Orthodox Judaism. Even if we don't necessarily have the ability ...

In Israel, I rediscovered Judaism, but neither as a pure faith ... support from the government for their secular education), Modern-Orthodox leaders distract their communities with hollow Talmudic ...

a Modern Orthodox synagogue in California, talked to JNS as he exited the event early to fly back home, where his community faces wildfires. Orthodox Jewish-owned businesses have other ...

In an American political climate where meritocracy is the word du jour, it’s not clear if any minority label – for any group – will be an asset or a liability.

This gay man, a descendant of generations of Orthodox ... Tamara hid her Jewish identity and continually reinvented herself in Europe and the U.S., all the while becoming a modern painter whose ...