Teenage girls in Jewish day schools are consistently less confident than boys in political and historical discussions. That's ...

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 ...

The decline in women’s rights is measurable. In the 2025–26 Women, Peace and Security Index, Israel ranks 84 of 181 countries – behind Albania, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.

The Gender Index has been published annually since 2004. Over more than two decades, overall gender equality in Israel has ...

(RNS) — The ruling does not call for the strictly Orthodox rabbinate to ordain women as rabbis but opens up to women the body’s licensing exams that test in a variety of areas of Jewish law. (RNS) — ...

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