The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her ...

Shiphrah and Puah, two midwives in Egypt, were commanded by the tyrant Pharoah to kill all male Israelite babies. As Exodus’ ...

Just beneath is another, far more remarkable story, not about a hero but about six heroines – six courageous women without ...

Happy Sunday. As our Dispatch Faith essay by writer Jake Meador points out today, Donald Trump’s connections to the late ...

“The Guiding Light” was also a pioneer in on-screen diversity, becoming the first soap opera to feature African-American actors in contract roles. In 1966, the character Jim Frazier was played by ...

(JTA) — French police are searching for a man who stabbed a young Jewish woman in her home in Lyon on Saturday. A swastika was found scrawled on her door, and police said they are investigating ...

Zeeva Bukai wrote The Anatomy of Exile from the perspective of a familiar literary figure: the anxious Jewish mother. Only in this novel about a Mizrahi Israeli family moving to America, the main ...

Dana Bash, a senior CNN correspondent, stepped down as a trustee of Jewish Women International because of its abortion rights advocacy. WASHINGTON (JTA) — Dana Bash, a senior CNN correspondent ...

Volunteerism is the hallmark of Jewish life in Chicago. Almost every Jewish agency and organization welcomes the participation of volunteers in its operation. * Listings with an asterisk are part of ...

Judy Bloom was an advocate for women in business and politics and devoted her life to volunteering, including for Jewish ...

Poet Allisa Cherry is entranced by Hebrew Scriptures, turning to them to express her anguish over the tragic lives of the ...

In a workshop in an infamous refugee camp in Beirut, Palestinian women practice an ancient art form — as a livelihood, and ...