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The wig and long skirt she wears are not slowing Michal Zernowitski down in her race to become the first ultra-Orthodox woman MP for the Labor party in Israel's April polls. Michal Zernowitski, a ...

Yael Mizrachi, a 30-year-old Israeli woman, has been to many matchmakers. "Too many," she says, rolling her wide dark eyes and tossing her shoulder-length hair. Matchmakers are the traditional way to ...

Exhausted by more than 14 months of war, the wives and mothers of Israeli soldiers are uniting in protest against exemptions from conscription for ultra-Orthodox men. For several Saturday evenings, ...

Leah Vincent is a writer and activist. She is the author of Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood. The views expressed are solely her own. When we think of people fighting ...

Chavie Weisberger grew up in an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community in Monsey, New York, where she raised her three children after her 2008 divorce. But as she began questioning her faith and her ...

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews packed the streets and sidewalks for blocks around the Israeli consulate in New York City on ...

An all woman’s screening at a London JCC of an Israeli movie by a haredi Orthodox film-maker was cancelled after a complaint to the country’s the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. “Gift of Fire” ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — In 2019, Sarah Segal-Katz was one of six Orthodox Jewish women who petitioned Israel’s High Court of Justice for the right to take the same accreditation exams the Chief Rabbinate ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The deadliest attack in Israel’s history happened on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s watch. The country’s economy is struggling under the weight of the ongoing war in Gaza. And ...

Israeli security personnel in Jerusalem disperse ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters opposed to conscription, on October 31, 2024 - Copyright AFP/File Ted ALJIBE Israeli ...