By MICHAL RAUCHER Of Rutgers University When people picture a rabbi, they may imagine a man standing in front of a ...

This past month, 19 college-age Jewish women immersed themselves in the Machon L’Yahadus 12-day Winter Program.

(RNS) — From the days of Miriam, the sister of Moses and Aaron, Jewish women have been leaders-without-portfolio. In the Book of Exodus, Miriam, a “prophetess,” leads the Israelite women in song, but ...

There is a compendium of grievances Jewish women have expressed about traditional Judaism for generations, and Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin has aimed to tackle them in his newest book “Thank God for Making ...

AJU has announced that Rabbi Artson will be named the Mordecai Kaplan Distinguished Scholar, effective July 1, a position ...

(RNS) — In her debut book, ‘The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic,’ Gila Fine, a lecturer of rabbinic literature at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, shows how the women in the Talmud ...

I want to make the case that for life satisfaction there are few, if any, professions or callings that begin to match being a Rabbi.

Machon L’Yahadus Women’s Yeshiva is a unique school in Crown Heights where young Jewish women learn, live and love Judaism. And each student has her own story.

More than two dozen Israeli rabbis’ wives signed a letter urging Jewish women not to date or work with Arab men. The letter, which had at least 27 signatories, was distributed Tuesday by Lehava, a one ...

Last December, Mendel Epstein, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi in Brooklyn, was convicted of conspiring to kidnap and torture men who had refused to give their wives a Jewish divorce, known as a “get.” The ...