Under Reform and Conservative Judaism, women may be ordained as rabbis, read from the Torah or Jewish holy book, and wear prayer shawls. The proposal's acceptance would be the latest in a series ...

A terrorist attack inspired a Bar-Ilan University professor to research the neglected history of prayers for Jewish women. NEW YORK (JTA) — On the evening of May 27, 2002, a Palestinian ...

Many Jewish women now in their 80s and 90s did not get a chance to have a bat mitzvah. The Arbor at Lake Worth set out to ...

There’s a range of options on each two-page spread of the new version of American Judaism’s best-selling prayer book ... do not read Hebrew or are non-Jewish family members.

In the 80-year history of the women's auxiliary group at B'nai Emunah, a Conservative Jewish congregation, there has never been a program on making and wearing prayer shawls. Until this week.

When the holiest days in the Jewish calendar begin Sunday at sundown, Jews worldwide will be praying for repentance and a good new year. For Reform Jews using a new High Holy Days prayer book ...

JERUSALEM – A liberal women's group has held a special Passover prayer service at a Jerusalem holy site, drawing criticism from the site's ultra-Orthodox rabbi, who called it a "provocation.

"During the prayers, friction arose between the worshippers ... According to Orthodox Jewish tradition, women should not perform these religious rituals. Under pressure from ultra-Orthodox ...

Police in Jerusalem on Monday detained 10 women for wearing the tallit, a Jewish prayer shawl traditionally worn by men, while praying at the Western Wall. The Women of the Wall have been fighting ...

But for some women, she says, it can be more complicated ... donating 100% of the profits to Jewish causes. Wolf recalls that, as a girl in the 60’s, “I was longingly desperate to have ...

And the National Council of Jewish Women in a tweet echoed concerns that ... arguing that “for many Orthodox Jews, brief quiet prayer is a fact of every-day life, and may often have to be ...

protesters when the multi-denominational Jewish women’s prayer group prayed at the Western Wall on Friday morning. Until now, Israeli security forces have done the bare minimum to enforce crowd ...