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In an ongoing dialogue with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the successor of St. Andrew the Apostle and “first among equals” among the bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Pope ...

A survey on the finances of US Orthodox Jews has found that the community is largely financially secure, but frets about savings and spends heavily on education and other cost-of-living expenses tied ...

The Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, met with President Donald Trump earlier this month in the White House and awarded him one of the highest honors in the church, the Grand ...

HOUSTON—On a typical Friday night in Houston, many young people are out drinking at bars or curled up watching Netflix, grateful to be done with the obligations of the workweek. But in a few Houston ...

When Sarah Riccardi-Swartz moved from New York City to a small Appalachian town in West Virginia in the fall of 2017, she was searching for an answer to a puzzling question. Why had a group of ...

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews blocked roads and a railway line across Israel in protests against military conscription, ...

His father was a rabbi, as were all his mentors, and they all thought he would make a good one. At his bar mitzvah, the head of his yeshiva told his parents: Invite me to the ordination ceremony. Shua ...

Yeshiva University, the storied modern Orthodox Jewish university in New York City, is in the midst of a legal battle over its refusal to recognize the YU Pride Alliance, an undergraduate club. While ...

The Orthodox Church raises concerns over revised FCRA rules, calling for stakeholder consultation and warning against infringement on fundamental rights.

During Israel’s War of Independence in 1948, then-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion decided to exempt approximately 400 ...