On Monday morning and Tuesday afternoon, Brown/RISD Hillel held its first-ever daytime Rosh Hashanah services for students who belong to the Modern Orthodox denomination of Judaism. According to Anna ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Worshippers including President Vladimir Putin packed Moscow’s landmark Christ the Savior Cathedral for a nighttime Easter service led by Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox ...

Though the Center for Jewish Life (CJL) offers a variety of services, the Chabad services will target a different audience, Chabad Rabbi Eitan Webb said in response to concerns of Orthodox students ...

A prayer service marking the third anniversary of the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine takes place Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, at St. Mary’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Whitehall Township. Arch Bishop Daniel ...

Easter is more than a day to Harrisburg-area Christians. That’s especially true to the area’s Orthodox churches, which have spent the past several days observing Bright Week. The week, which began on ...

More women are taking on positions as clergy in a tradition where women have never been clergy before, adopting a variety of titles. Some call themselves rosh kehilah, which means “head of the ...

The Rev. Michael Kirkland considers himself Ukrainian, not by blood but by his spiritual heritage. The Orthodox priest was ordained by Ukrainian refugees and now leads St. Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox ...

Since the founding of the Israeli state in 1948, “Haredi” (or “ultra-Orthodox”) men have been exempted from military service to study Torah instead. Haredi students and their families would be ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a highway during a protest against army recruitment in Bnei Brak, Israel, Thursday, June 27, 2024. Israel's Supreme Court unanimously ordered the government to begin ...