This Orthodox Jewish model made history at New York Fashion Week Lily Brasch, a disability activist, became the first person with muscular dystrophy to walk the runway without a mobility aid during the semi-annual designers’ showcase.
Haredi Orthodox radio station fined for keeping women’s voices off the air The Jerusalem District Court also ordered that the money be given to programs that empower religious women.
In Israeli first, Orthodox Jerusalem synagogue hires female spiritual leader Karmit Feintuch, an educator at a West Bank seminary for nearly a decade, will serve at the Ramban Synagogue and bear the title “rabbanit."