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A tribute to Chabad visionary Rabbi Shraga Faivish Vogel

Inspirational Chasidic outreach rabbi whose teachings linked Jewish thought with the modern world

By Dr Tali Loewenthal

5 min read

A tribute to Chabad visionary Rabbi Shraga Faivish Vogel

The rabbi who helped to crack Israel’s Orthodox glass ceiling

Orthodox Judaism

The rabbi who helped to crack Israel’s Orthodox glass ceiling

By Simon Rocker

2 min read

Women in the upstairs gallery at St Johns Wood at the induction ceremony of Chief Rabbi Mirvis in 2013s (Getty Images)

Goodbye to the ladies’ gallery

By Simon Rocker

4 min read

Co-authors of It Takes Two to Torah Abby Pogrebin and Rabbi Dov Linzer (photo: Michael Nagle)

An Orthodox rabbi and Reform journalist share their dialogue over Torah

By Simon Rocker

4 min read

Adina Sash and Malky Gold Berkowitz. Sash shared the image on Instagram with the caption 'Malky is FREE. Never give up! Mazel Tov to the Gold & Berkowitz family on this incredible simcha of freedom & new beginnings.' (Photo: Instagram)

Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox sex strike ends in New York after ‘chained woman’ Malky is granted a divorce

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

The interior of Princes Road Synagogue, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary with a six-month programme of events (Photo: Michael D Beckwith/Wikipedia)

Liverpool’s oldest synagogue celebrates its 150th in style

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Google Street View car captures Canvey Island’s growing Jewish Community on shabbat

Google Street View captures Canvey Island’s growing Jewish Community on Shabbat

By Rosa Doherty

2 min read

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How women rose to Orthodox synagogue leadership

Cautious progress rather than rapid change has been the order of the day

By Simon Rocker

4 min read

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August 25, 2024 08:52

How women rose to Orthodox synagogue leadership

Online antisemites’ new frontier? The Talmud

Rabbi Daniel Rowe says criticism of the Talmud is escaping neo-Nazi forums, and becoming mainstream

By Hannah Gillott

5 min read

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August 20, 2024 17:26

Ultra orthodox jewish kids study on the first day of school at an Ultra-Orthodox school founded by Rabbi Shmuel Stern in Jerusalem on August 9, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** תלמוד תורה בית ספר חרדים ילדים קורונה וירוס חרדים תלמוד תורה

Am Yisrael High! Meet the Chasidic campaigner for drug reform

Orthodox councillor Andrew Walters wants to free the weed – but not in the way you might think

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

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July 31, 2024 13:18

Salford councillor Andrew Walters.

Power struggle leaves Israel without chief rabbis

Politics, nepotism and the role of women have left the country's top rabbinical offices vacant for the first time in its history

By Etgar Lefkovits

2 min read

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July 8, 2024 10:52

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau (left) and Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attend a ceremony selling hametz (food containing leavening) to Arab Israeli Mr Jaber before the upcoming Passover holiday in Jerusalem, April 4, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Simon Rocker

By Simon Rocker

Another step forward for Orthodox female rabbis

The graduation of Rabbi Miriam Lorie is a pivotal moment as she has her own community

3 min read

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June 5, 2024 09:06

Miriam Lorie (photo credit: Benjamin Leon)

Rabbi’s ordination marks a decade of progress for Orthodox women in Britain

Rabbi Miriam Lorie will next week become the first ordained woman to lead an Orthodox community in the UK

3 min read

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May 31, 2024 11:05

Daf Yomi (Talmud study) event for women

Orthodox women in New York launch ‘sex strike’ to protest against religious divorce

A group of Orthodox women are refusing to enter the mikveh in protest over a fellow community member’s plight

By Eliana Jordan

3 min read

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March 11, 2024 16:43

Demonstrators call for Malky Berkowitz' freedom from her husband Volvy Berkowitz, who has refused the get document necessary for an Orthodox woman to be able to divorce her partner. (Photo: Adina Sash)

Charedi protesters block motorway and say they would rather ‘die’ than enlist

Some strictly-Orthodox protesters called the police ‘Nazis’

2 min read

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March 4, 2024 10:14

Police try to shift strictly-Orthodox protesters from Route 4 on Sunday

Orthodox dentist shot dead in California a week after celebrating his birthday

Recent graduate Dr Benjamin Harouni was killed while Mohammed Abdulkareem, 29, was arrested by police

By Rosa Doherty

2 min read

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March 3, 2024 12:32

Dr Benjamin Harouni (Photo: Instagram)

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