Sydney, Australia – The plight of “agunot,” Jewish women whose husbands refuse to grant them a divorce, is well known. There are organizations, social media campaigns and movies that address the issue.
A girls’ Orthodox Jewish day school in London is in trouble with Britain’s educations standards office for failing to teach its students about LGBT issues.
TOWN OF WAWARSING, N.Y. – The death of a 38-year-old yeshiva teacher at a Hasidic Jewish camp in southern Ulster County is not a criminal matter, a county sheriff’s lieutenant said Monday.
Family members of Otto Warmbier, the American student who fell into a coma while imprisoned in North Korea, said that Otto was Jewish but that they had hidden his Jewishness up to this point.
A Sydney synagogue may have to close because it is unable to sack its rabbi, the synagogue’s president says.
Tzipi Kaplan, the daughter of the late Rabbi and MK Meir Kahane, founder of The Jewish Defense League and the Kach party who was assassinated in New York by an Arab gunman, passed away over Shabbat at the age of 56, after a long struggle with a serious medical condition and suffering a severe CVA…
In a first for Israel, rabbinical judges in Jerusalem and Haifa recently approved the opening of criminal proceedings against men who refused to grant their wives a get (religious divorce), acting upon instructions from State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan to increase the pressure on the men.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took off this afternoon to Thessaloniki for a trilateral summit meeting with Greek and Cypriot leaders.
Dan Hanegby, an Israeli investment banker, was killed in a collision with a charter bus on Monday morning in Manhattan, according to the New York Times.
A woman stripped off her clothes at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Sunday and ran from the women’s section toward the men’s section of the holy site.