Modern Orthodoxy

Ideas

These Modern Orthodox and observant Jews want to change their community’s conversation around the Gaza war

Lamenting the death toll in Gaza and questioning Israeli policy in the West Bank, Smol Emuni US holds a conference in NYC.

Teen Fellowship

‘Where do I stand?’ Queer Modern Orthodox teens navigate a changing world

Some teens say their communities are increasingly inclusive — but they find Yeshiva University’s push to bar an LGBTQ student club discouraging.

Taking a page from ‘Vagina Monologues,’ a new book explores taboos around women’s sexuality and gender in the Orthodox world

Two of the five editors talk about why they took on this project, how the book resonates with their experiences and what they hope readers take away from it.

Yeshiva University's Mendel Gottesman Library (Wikimedia Commons)

United States

Yeshiva University Democrats Club loses official status after LGBTQ advocacy

Ideas

How an Italian earthquake in 1570 created the first Modern Orthodox Jew

Israel

Israel’s Chief Rabbinate promises standards for conversion rabbis and to count Ivanka Trump as Jewish

In what could be a first, Orthodox synagogue elects all-female board

Ideas

No, rabbi, ‘traditional’ women are not immune from rape

Ideas

Op-Ed: Modern Orthodoxy is under attack from the right. It’s time to fight back.

Obituaries

Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, prominent modern Orthodox scholar, dies

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