Rabbanit Leah Sarna, the first senior rabbinic leader of her Orthodox synagogue, opens a crack in a persistent glass ceiling.

Six of Maharat’s alumnae have founded their own communities, in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Haifa, Tel Aviv, London and Paris. Others were hired to lead or co-lead congregations across the United States.

Women played diverse and influential roles in the Byzantine Empire that extended far beyond the domestic affairs of each family.

BEST OF 2019: Photographer Federica Valabrega takes us inside the secretive lives of Orthodox Jewish women from around the globe, from New York to Jerusalem. Video by Sebastián Díaz Aguirre ...

Military medic Natalya carried a jug of water blessed by priests at the Sviatogirsk monastery in east Ukraine as she ...

The anti-abortion movement is on the rise in Russia, and the Kremlin is responding by changing the law to make terminations more difficult.

The Estonian Ministry of the Interior is close to finalizing a draft bill that would lead the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPEÕK) to cease its activities in Estonia. According ...

As with many other natives of Saaremaa, Rüütel, born May 10, 1928, was baptized into the Estonian Orthodox Church at a time when Estonia was an independent republic. Estonia's former presidents are ...

Public support for doing away with sweeping army exemptions for military-age ultra-Orthodox men has risen sharply over the past year, according to a survey published Tuesday by the Israel ...

but did cement synodality as a much-needed change in the way the universal church confronts difficult problems and decisions. It is hard to imagine a future synod that did not include women ...

Agus, who died this month in Manhattan at 75, was an early advocate of Orthodox feminism ... the festival of the new moon, as a women’s ritual. The new moon festival is part of traditional ...

Kang-Chun Cheng for The New York Times Supported by By Sarah Hurtes Reporting from Nairobi For nearly a decade, Kenya’s only church led and ... assigned to women. Once, they held what they ...