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 ...

Nearly a decade later, I encountered kugel again, not on a plate, but on a screen. This time, it stayed. Kugel, the ...

Frieda Vizel left her ultra-orthodox lifestyle in a crisis of faith at 25 but instead of cutting ties she became a tour guide to the world of New York's ultra-Orthodox Jews. Vizel gives sold-out tours ...

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This dramatic transformation is the story that Dr. Lawrence Grossman (former director of publications at the American Jewish ...

In August this year as I sat down in an Orthodox shul in Tel Aviv surrounded by LGBT+ people davening Kabbalat Shabbat, I realised that the trajectory of my life was about to change.

The inaugurations of Michele Weiss in University Heights, Ohio, and Justin Brasch in White Plains, New York, this week marked a milestone for Orthodox representation in local politics.