Ideas An installation in Pennsylvania marks a milestone in the journey of Orthodox women rabbinic leaders Rabbanit Leah Sarna, the first senior rabbinic leader of her Orthodox synagogue, creates another crack in a persistent glass ceiling.
In a first, Israeli government to pay Orthodox women to advise on Jewish law Women halachic advisers is a concept that has spread in the United States but that Israel’s Orthodox establishment has resisted.
Ordained Orthodox woman announces plans to open her own synagogue Rabbanit Hadas Fruchter said her synagogue is going to be "fully in line with Jewish law in terms of Modern Orthodox understanding.”