Nearly 6,000 miles from Pittsburgh, a group of Jewish high school students gained a sense of positivity and connection. Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh brought 26 girls to Israel for a 10-day trip ...

Two Jewish-American women who were deported from Israel for having entered a closed military zone in the West Bank to help Palestinian olive growers with their harvest have been banned from Israel for ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Over the years, many of the young Orthodox women studying at the Midreshet Lindenbaum seminary yearned to join a combat unit in the Israeli army but knew that staying religiously ...

Volunteers from Jewish communities abroad serving in Israel’s national civilian service program took on emergency roles helping displaced families and children after the war with Iran.

Grant Amount: $18,000 Israel Hofsheet bolsters women’s equal status in Israel, and promotes freedom of religion and Jewish pluralism. Through this project, Israel Hofsheet will engage in advocacy to ...

Over the past year, 32 women from both Jewish and Arab backgrounds were victims of femicide. Forty-four women have been murdered in Israel since the start of the calendar year, 32 of whom were victims ...

Teenage girls in Jewish day schools are consistently less confident than boys in political and historical discussions. That’s a systemic failure, writes a professor of Jewish studies and sociology.

When Muslim and Jewish women lead the path to peace, they do more than challenge entrenched divisions — they remind the world that reconciliation is not only possible, but already quietly underway.

The Jewish Women’s Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago has awarded $349,890 to 21 unique projects that improve the lives of Jewish women and girls locally and around the world. The grants focus on ...