Ultra-Orthodox women in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, want to experience the joys of summer like everyone else. But that may not be possible this year, due to a lack of female lifeguards at the local ...

“Do you remember him?” Nechie Fischman’s friend asked her in November. It had been nearly a decade since the 30-year-old former Orthodox Jewish woman last saw the Brooklyn doctor. Still, she ...

“When I left my husband so my kids and I could survive, the community left me.” Thus spoke a heartbroken Hasidic woman, who was rejected by her community when she fled her 16-year marriage to an ...

Khazonim, or cantors, like Yossele Rosenblatt and Gershon Sirota — once household names that commanded massive respect and ...

NEW YORK-- It's an inspirational story about a mother, grandmother, and founder of a nonprofit. Now, the Brooklyn woman just added New York State Supreme Court judge to her resume. Acting Judge Rachel ...

A critical lack of secular education in Orthodox yeshivas affects tens of thousands of Jewish children, writes the executive ...

Zumba has been given a kosher makeover so Orthodox Jewish women can finally join the sexy Latin-inspired fitness craze. Shimrit Adar, 31,of Shimi 2 Zumba in Brooklyn, New York, hosts women-only $10 ...

Rabbi Moskowitz remembers Sukkot in Czernowitz: “All year, men and women ate together but not on Sukkot. My mother blessed ...