Israel’s chief rabbis — known as the Rabbinate and the top authority for the country’s Orthodox institutions — do not ...

A court decision allowing Israeli women to take the Chief Rabbinate’s exams is the latest sign of growing recognition for ...

(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) — ...

Jewish teachers, fed up with their own unions’ spate of antisemitic actions in recent years, notched a win this summer when the National Education Association reversed a decision to sever ties with ...

Trying to make history is never easy. But Linda Bobrin is not only used to taking on a challenge but also doing whatever it takes to make it work. That’s how a woman who grew up in what she admits ...

The chief rabbis of Israel, Kalman Ber and David Yosef, accuse the High Court of Justice of interfering with matters of ...

This report investigates disparities between non-Orthodox Jewish men and women with respect to Jewish religious and communal engagement. The study draws on survey data from five different sources ...

(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 ...