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Illustrative photo of ultra-Orthodox men ((Raw Herring/Flickr via JTA)
July 19, 2018, 1:16 am
Study finds widespread history of sexual abuse among formerly Orthodox
Research by two Orthodox Jewish researchers finds link among 300 victims between experiences and subsequent rejection of religion
By Sam Sokol
Police disperse ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrating in Jerusalem against the conscription of members of their community to the IDF, on October 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/ Menahem Kahana)
October 22, 2017, 10:29 pm
Cops draw flack for marking ultra-Orthodox protesters arms with numbers
Critics say police acted like Nazis branding concentration camp inmates; cops say detainees refused to identify themselves
By TOI staff
An ultra-Orthodox couple at a cemetery (illustrative photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
From the WebAugust 15, 2017, 9:30 am
As opioid crisis grows in Orthodox circles, relatives speak out
New York Jewish Week: ‘The religious community only started caring once we started dying’
A couple in bed (iStock via JTA)
February 18, 2016, 4:19 am
Risk-taking key to good sex and relationships, says Orthodox therapist
UCLA professor Doreen Seidler-Feller, married to a rabbi, urges couples to ‘be experimental’ and ‘explore new territory’
By Laura Kelly
Children in the Kasuku Jewish community look at new donated books on October 4, 2015. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
November 23, 2015, 9:43 am
Judaism’s divisive conversion politics exported to Africa
Deep in the highlands of rural Kenya, members of a community struggle with labels that both unite and divide them from world Jewry
By Melanie Lidman
Illustrative: An Israeli rabbinical court reviews a conversion case. (Flash90)
July 7, 2015, 4:22 am
10 revealing facts about Orthodox Jewish converts, from RCA report
78% of converts are women, and other nuggets from the recent internal review
By Uriel Heilman
A speaker at a panel at the RCA’s recent annual convention in Tarrytown, New York (JTA, Courtesy of RCA)
July 7, 2015, 4:18 am
Panel recommends changes to Orthodox conversion
Rabbinical group’s new guidelines to prevent abuse, following voyeurism case, also offer a snapshot of converts
By Uriel Heilman
Students from Ateris Bais Yaakov, an all-girls’ school from Monsey, New York visit the Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center in Brooklyn. (courtesy)
May 28, 2015, 3:34 am
At new Brooklyn museum, an Orthodox take on the Holocaust
The Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center focuses on matters of faith — and even those who lost it — in its portrayal of the Shoah
By Cathryn J. Prince
Rabbi Daniel Burg joins African-American faith leaders and thousands of volunteers to clean up west Baltimore, April 2015. (Courtesy: Daniel Burg)
May 1, 2015, 5:17 am
The story behind Baltimore’s Jews and their African-American ties
Many Jewish locals were civil rights activists, but some Jewish-owned department stores had segregationist policies
By Julie Wiener
An ultra-orthodox Jewish bride at her wedding in 2013. (Illustrative photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
April 2, 2015, 12:13 am
With Jewish divorce rates at 30%, NY Orthodoxy responds
‘Rising From Divorce’ seeks to engage the insular community with concrete methods to ease children’s pain in the aftermath of an all-too-modern problem
By Cathryn J. Prince
Shira Pruce
February 17, 2015, 6:48 pm
Shira Pruce
If only the dancing girls at the Kotel knew…
The singing Orthodox girls praying have electric energy, but don’t realize they owe it to the Women of the Wall
Tzohar women at the 'Guf Rishon' conference, January 2015. (photo credit: courtesy image)
January 23, 2015, 12:51 am
Religious women hold trailblazing conference on family sexuality
150 participants, mostly wives of rabbis affiliated with Tzohar group, discuss the intersection of Jewish life and sex education
By Debra Kamin
Kay Long at the Western Wall on Monday after modesty volunteers barred her from entering the women's section. (photo courtesy: Kay Long)
January 7, 2015, 4:50 pm
Transgendered woman barred from Western Wall prayer
Kay Long denied access to Jerusalem holy site because ‘modesty police’ would not allow her in women’s or men’s sections
By Melanie Lidman
Rabbi Moshe Twersky (photo credit: Israel Foreign Ministry)
From the WebNovember 19, 2014, 6:23 am
Rabbi Moshe Twersky was religious royalty
A well known figure himself in Orthodox circles, he came from a long lineage of influential leaders, the Washington Post reports
Film director Rani Blair speaking to a crowd at the Tel Aviv municipality’s first Shavuot night learning program, hosted in conjunction with Beit Tefilah Israeli, a liberal Friday night prayer group. (Courtesy Tel Aviv Municipality)
June 24, 2014, 8:38 am
Activists aim to steer state funding to non-Orthodox
Advocates for religious pluralism of various Jewish denominations call for equitable distribution of government budget
By Ben Sales
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