A professor of religious studies explores how the pig became the ultimate Jewish taboo — and an inadvertent marker of Jewish ...

When Russia added the Jehovah’s Witnesses to the country’s list of “extremist organizations” in April 2017, few could imagine ...

I am one of several women who recently sued the Union of Orthodox Congregations of America (renamed the “Orthodox Union”). My ...

Author Betty Johansen has released a new book, 'The Bible In Brief - A Historical Summary Of God's Story From The Beginning ...

Kiev held a mass to thank Constantinople for recognising the Ukrainian Church's independence The Russian Orthodox Church has cut ties with the Church leadership in Istanbul, the Constantinople ...

‘Orthodox’ can be used to describe people on any part of the scale of Judaism – from those who are fully observant to the Torah, to those who do not follow it closely. Overall, it refers to ...

What the words of ancient rabbis could and couldn’t teach me.

A haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, leader once joked to me that “few people leave Orthodoxy, but every one of them writes a book about it.” It was a sardonic comment about popular works by Jews ...

In New York City today, September 15, 2024, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America visited Saint George Tropeoforos Greek Orthodox Church, where he presided from the throne over the Divine ...

In 2021, the Orthodox Union declined to put its kosher certification on Impossible Pork, even though similarly vegan “Impossible” foods — its burger, its chicken nuggets — carried the OU ...

But Dmytruk, who is a deacon in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, will claim at Westminster Magistrates Court on Tuesday he is a victim of political oppression by the Zelensky government because of ...