(RNS) — Women around the world who seek Jewish divorces under religious law face “significant systematic challenges that extend far beyond isolated cases,” according to a recently released survey of ...

A Louisville judge heard new arguments in a 2022 court case challenging Kentucky’s abortion ban and seeking to clarify the ...

A judge heard lawyers' arguments Monday in a years-long lawsuit brought by a Jewish woman against Kentucky's near-total ...

For decades, liberal denominations have permitted women to be ordained. Orthodox Judaism, however, has largely prohibited it. Yet attitudes toward women’s study of rabbinic texts are changing.

Since its launch in 2022, the Jewish Fund for Abortion Access has raised more than $1.5 million and, to date, has provided ...

Jewish teachers, fed up with their own unions’ spate of antisemitic actions in recent years, notched a win this summer when the National Education Association reversed a decision to sever ties with ...

(RNS) — Israel’s state rabbinate must open up its rabbinic expertise exams to women, Israel’s supreme court said on Monday (July 14) in a ruling hailed by advocates for pluralism and egalitarianism in ...