JERUSALEM – Israeli police with metal barriers and human chains on Friday held back thousands of ultra-Orthodox protesters who tried to prevent a liberal Jewish women's group from praying at a key ...

Once a month, just after dawn, dozens of women gather at the Western Wall to protest Orthodox Jewish insistence that women of non-orthodox faith must pray by Orthodox rules instead of the more liberal ...

JERUSALEM — Jews from Manhattan to Mozambique held prayer vigils early this week to protest the arrest and incarceration of an Israeli feminist as she was leading 250 American Jewish women in prayer ...

(RNS) This past weekend, Melania Trump walked up to the presidential podium, thanked the crowd and, with her husband by her side, said something I can’t remember any first lady or president doing in ...

Reporting from Jerusalem — Clutching smuggled Torah scrolls, dozens of feminist activists approached the Western Wall, wrapping themselves in colorful prayer shawls and chanting passages from the ...

A new book, When Women Pray: Eleven Catholic Women on the Power of Prayer explores what unique gifts women have to offer a Church Pope Francis so often says is “Mother” – in a world that aches for ...

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." The ...

Members of the activist group “Women of the Wall” pray with a Torah scroll during a monthly prayer near the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City July 24, 2017. Photo by Ronen Zvulun/REUTERS. “When ...