Guidelines around menstruation and intimacy are a pillar of Jewish life that many same-sex couples refuse to abandon, even as they fear rejection by those running the ritual baths

Rabbi Benny Lau, known for progressive positions within Religious Zionist camp, issues guidlines to help observant LGBTQ Jews manage their family lives within religious communities

Judges strike down State Department appeal over earlier decision child is American despite being conceived with Israeli father's sperm and born in Canada using a surrogate mother

Documentarian Ric Burns captures celebrated Jewish MD's final days in a meditation on Sacks's Orthodox youth, tumultuous career and acceptance of mortality. Film debuts Sept. 23

Flagship Modern Orthodox college says accepting group would've disrupted balance between accepting every individual and 'affirming timeless prescriptions of Torah'

When it opens, the vegan, halal and kosher Pink Peacock will have Ashkenazi fare on a pay-what-you-can model, and plans to be a center for language, culture and LGBTQ activity

Orthodox Oakland Hebrew Day School teaches children of same-sex and interfaith families; says story more nuanced and not all options exhausted before family turned to social media

Australian-born career diplomat became the prime minister's spokesperson to the foreign media in Ehud Olmert era; will be replaced as UK ambassador by Tzipi Hotovely

The now-31-year-old politician seeks to replace the more moderate -- and experienced -- Democratic incumbent Richard Neal in primary elections September 1

Founder Yitz Jordan is proud, gay, and deeply Jewish. The Tribe Herald, a centralized voice for minority Jews, is already popular with Jews of all stripes after its June 19 launch