JERUSALEM (RNS) — Over the years, many of the young Orthodox women studying at the Midreshet Lindenbaum seminary yearned to join a combat unit in the Israeli army but knew that staying religiously ...

With JOWMA’s support, an American delegation of thirty medical students, residents, fellows, and attendings flew to Israel ...

(RNS) — The ruling does not call for the strictly Orthodox rabbinate to ordain women as rabbis but opens up to women the body’s licensing exams that test in a variety of areas of Jewish law. (RNS) — ...

One of four fast days commemorating the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the First Temple, mentioned by the prophet ...

The Gender Index has been published annually since 2004. Over more than two decades, overall gender equality in Israel has ...

Hope is thin in Israel as activists and citizens call for justice and prepare for next year’s contentious elections ...

(RNS) — Israel’s state rabbinate must open up its rabbinic expertise exams to women, Israel’s supreme court said on Monday (July 14) in a ruling hailed by advocates for pluralism and egalitarianism in ...