Simon Rocker

Major Orthodox organisation blocks women from clerical roles

Ruling from the Orthodox Union says women should not be appointed as a rabbi or in any position suggesting the status of a member of the clergy.

Orthodox ready to teach relationships

Kosher cocktails? We'll drink to that!

JFS spellbound by The Pianist of Willesden Lane

Mona Golabek gives her first performance at a UK school of her dramatisation of her mother's flight to London on the Kindertransport

Le Pen: making aliyah means losing citizenship

The right-wing candidate for the French presidency says under her immigration policy, people from countries outside the EU would not be able to hold dual-citizenship in France.

What is Tu Bishvat?

Tu Bishvat, sometimes transliterated as Tu B'Shevat, traditionally marks the date on which farmers began calculating the tithing of their fruit crop for the coming year.

'Significant' rise in mental health issues

Judge in transgender case had hard task

New places will not derail school bid

The issue of school capacity has yet to be settled

JCoSS and JFS offer extra school places

A joint statement from the schools reads 'While we could never make certain that every Jewish student is guaranteed a place, the increased flexibility should reduce the number of families who are unsuccessful.'

Transgender ex-Charedi denied contact with her children

Judge rules man now living as a woman can have only indirect contact with children four times a year because of risk that strictly Orthodox community could ostracise family