Though the Center for Jewish Life (CJL) offers a variety of services, the Chabad services will target a different audience, Chabad Rabbi Eitan Webb said in response to concerns of Orthodox students ...
As the government ignores the question of opening the Western Wall to non-Orthodox denominations dozens of Orthodox Jewish worshippers are establishing facts on the ground by holding festive holiday ...
Traditionally, women have been locked out of reading the Jewish holy book in Orthodox Holy Day celebrations. But a small movement of female Torah readers is gaining ground both in the United States ...
A group of women who have been seeking to join Brooklyn’s all-male Orthodox ambulance corps has now dropped its campaign, opting instead to establish a separate women’s service to tend to emergency ...
Most American churches navigated the patchwork of COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings by periodically closing their doors and broadcasting services online instead. But for almost half of U.S.
“After the difficult year we’ve had over the last four months, people want a very meaningful Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur,” one rabbi said. (JTA) – Less than two miles away from the Center for Disease ...
The Rev. Yaroslav Marykot, left, holds an Orthodox Christmas Eve service with fellow priests at St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral on Jan. 6, 2023, in Bloomingdale. His wife and two of his three ...