In many Orthodox Jewish settings, including the vast Haredi world, strict adherence to Torah and Jewish law has kept many ...

While politics may often seem like a clash of competing ideals and personalities, it is ultimately a field of opportunity where individuals like superlobbyist Nick Muzin have made meaningful ...

Congregation Sha’arei Orah installed its first spiritual leader late last month, with Rabbanit Leah Sarna taking over as one ...

Texas A&M's Sam Salz is breaking barriers as the first Orthodox Jew to make a Division 1 college football roster. Watch why ...

(JTA) — When Talia Avrahami was asked to resign from a job teaching in an Orthodox Jewish day school after people there found out she was transgender, she was devastated. But she hoped to be ...

Pope Francis sent his condolences to the Orthodox Church in Albania on Monday following the recent death of Archbishop Anastasios Yannoulatos, who led that church for nearly 33 years.

The suspect, who according to prosecutors had mapped Jewish sites in Chicago ... with terrorism and hate crime charges for shooting the Orthodox man in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood ...

It started at an airport. Strolling through Mactan-Cebu International Airport last month, I noticed a bearded man in a top ...

Sabbath Queen shown Sunday night at the San Diego International Jewish Film Festival documents the life of Amichai Lau-Lavie, the Rabbi and founding spiritual leader of Lab/Shul in NYC.  The ...

When Oleg Rostovtsev hovered between life and death after a serious operation last April, he asked friends and family to do something that, until recently, had been impossible — to pray for him by ...

The Orthodox distinctiveness lies particularly in the preparation period, which includes a fast starting on November 15—longer than Advent in the Catholic tradition. This liturgical period ...