traditional Jewish law, to the maximum. Let me begin by making a clear and loud declaration for all to hear: There is absolutely no basis in Jewish law for the separation of men and women on buses ...

Jewish women are seeking a greater role in Jewish rituals and prayer services. Central to the traditional Passover Seder are four questions, asked by the youngest participant in the meal and service.

Judith Kaplan, daughter of the influential rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, became the first woman to publicly celebrate the traditional Jewish coming-of-age ceremony. Becoming a bat mitzvah, or "daughter of ...

A few months ago, one of my acquaintances asked me why, in traditional Jewish communities, women tend to have secular names and men tend to have Hebrew names. This person is deeply knowledgeable ...

“My whole point is commentary and criticism on the way Jewish law and traditional Jewish texts show women’s inequality and their disadvantages, especially that women are forbidden to study ...

Unlike traditional Passover celebrations, the annual women's seder sponsored by the Houston chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women focuses on the role of women in the Exodus and ...

In this concluding essay, she describes what many traditional Jewish women sense but don’t necessarily have the words to articulate. “This absence of women’s voices from the endless texts ...

Although traditional Jewish law, or halacha, obligates women to hear the Megillah on par with men, many more traditionalist Orthodox communities still do not hold women’s Megillah readings.

These Jewish cookbooks, written in Yiddish and German as well as English, guided women in how to prepare traditional Jewish foods even as they also promoted American food, such as apple pie.

Silverman's mother raved about a loaf of challah — a traditional Jewish braided bread — she'd been served with a layer of honey in it. But she was frustrated that the baker wouldn't share her ...