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Schechter Queens students participate in school activities, including a Hanukkah dreidel competition. (Courtesy Schechter Queens/Queens Hebrew Academy via JTA)
January 12, 2025, 1:14 am
North America’s first Solomon Schechter Conservative day school turns Orthodox
As parents and students voice traditional preferences amid a nationwide shift among Jewish denominations, Solomon Schechter Queens rebrands itself as Queens Hebrew Academy
By Jackie Hajdenberg
IMAGE: Dr. Tova Hartman (Courtesy Ono Academic College)
June 10, 2022, 2:30 pm
Podcast: This feminist aims to make prayer, and higher education, more inclusive
ToI talks to psychologist Dr. Tova Hartman, who founded the first partnership minyan, Jerusalem’s Shira Hadasha, 20 years ago
By ToI Staff
Chochmat Nashim co-founder Shoshana Keats Jaskol. (Courtesy)
December 5, 2021, 10:40 pm
Seeking exposure in religious media, Orthodox women photograph themselves
As an extreme ‘modesty’ trend goes mainstream and the female form is omitted or removed from photos and ads, rights group Chochmat Nashim launches a photo bank so women can be seen
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: Blue and White party member Omer Yankelevich at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, May 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 23, 2020, 2:07 am
Diaspora Affairs Ministry proposes bill to connect government, world Jewry
Legislation would require ministries to interact with Jewish communities abroad about issues that affect them, in an effort to repair strained relations
By ToI Staff
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
Illustrative: 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
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