For decades, liberal denominations have permitted women to be ordained. Orthodox Judaism, however, has largely prohibited it. Yet attitudes toward women’s study of rabbinic texts are changing.

A new book details one Orthodox Jewish woman's journey from married to a man to coming out as a lesbian. By 19, Sara – nee Malka – Glass got everything an ultra-religious Jewish woman from the insular ...

BROOKLINE, Mass. (RNS)— A consortium of Orthodox Christian scholars, clergy and lay supporters meeting this week outside Boston proposed guidelines for the church to revive the ancient practice of ...

Tova Hartman is challenging some of the tenets of Orthodox Judaism by founding a traditional Orthodox synagogue that allows women unprecedented rights. When Tova Hartman moved from her native Montreal ...

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 ...

Those involved with the Weirton All Saints Greek Orthodox Church Women’s Society, Philoptochos, donated to various Brooke and ...

Orthodox women activists are pledging to withhold sex from their husbands as they escalate a public campaign to help one of their own obtain a religious divorce from her husband after four years of ...

Orthodox Jewish women attend an event celebrating the completion of the 7 1/2-year cycle of daily study of the Talmud, the central text of Jewish law, on Jan. 5, 2020, in Jerusalem. AP Photo/Tsafrir ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When people picture a rabbi, they may imagine a man standing in front of a congregation in a synagogue. But “rabbi” means much more than that. For example, a rabbi could be a ...