This is not only a legal victory but an important step in public recognition of women’s status within the religious ...

The contemporary tarot deck may have been a medieval Jewish invention to preserve Jewish knowledge in the face of overwhelming oppression.

While the show’s depiction of religion isn’t exactly robust, it is sincere, and—just as importantly—belief is never the ...

What sets Rabbi Elchanan Shoff apart from his colleagues and predecessors is his unquenchable desire to find out everything ...

A generation of haredi educators now understands that ignorance and separation can lead to fragility, while education ...

In the month of Tishrei, the students from Chabad Girls Academy of Crown Heights took a meaningful learning trip to visit ...

Cognitive decline is typically considered a hallmark of aging, but research suggests that not everyone is susceptible. A study from Northwestern University looked at a group of 80-year-olds who ...

Public school districts across the country are facing declining enrollment and shrinking budgets. This reality is forcing district leaders to make difficult decisions about how to use limited funds.

Anti-obesity medication semaglutide may help to prevent heart attacks and other major cardiac events regardless of how much weight people lose while taking the drug, according to a new study led by a ...

He’s far from an angel. While Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa has been enjoying the limelight on the campaign trail, his colorful past is catching up to him. Former independent mayoral candidate ...

The conflict over compulsory service for the nation’s ultra-Orthodox has become a stand-in for a larger struggle over the country’s right-wing, religious turn — and could determine its future. The ...

Billy Joel famously sings that only the good die young, but a recent study shows it’s really the poor who are dying young. With income inequality growing and more seniors falling into poverty each ...