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News Girls wore pants. Prayer was optional. Was this modern Orthodox school too open-minded for its own good?
The Idea School attracted queer students and others who appreciated its belief that students should pilot their own religious journeys
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Opinion What’s really at stake in the legal struggle between Yeshiva University and its LGBTQ+ students
YU claims to be fighting for religious liberty, despite considerable internal opposition to its legal offensive
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Opinion Is Midge Maisel my modern Orthodox neighbor?
The last season of ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ includes much needed observant Jewish visibility
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Opinion My friend Herschel Siegel died by suicide. Politicizing his death doesn’t help gay Jews
We ought not to assume that rejection from the Orthodox community played a role in Herschel's Siegel's tragic death
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News His synagogue barred him because he’s gay. Now, he protests outside each Shabbat.
'I just want a shul where everyone who is Jewish is welcome,' says Brian Mandel, a social worker.
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Fast Forward Survey finds Orthodox Jews are concerned about issues of abuse in their community
The survey also found slightly more progressive views on women in the clergy and Israeli politics than in the past
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California Briefing California Briefing: Special report on the Pico-Robertson shootings
Did it take a second shooting for LAPD to take the threat seriously?
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Yiddish World VIDEO: In historic first, a female Orthodox rabbi opens prayer at a state legislature
Miriam Udel is both an ordained rabbi and an acclaimed professor of Yiddish literature at Emory University
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