Women in the Orthodox Church Brief Comments from a Spiritual Perspective The commemoration day of St. Mary Magdalene brings to mind in general the role of women in the Orthodox Church. Orthodoxy has a ...

Lila Kagedan, who was ordained this summer by the Open Orthodox seminary, declined to identify the American congregation who hired her. (JTA) — The first graduate of Yeshivat Maharat to take ...

The strict boundaries between men and women are familiar to anyone who has attended an Orthodox synagogue or has read the stories of airplane flights being delayed because haredi Orthodox men ...