Women in the Orthodox Church Brief Comments from a Spiritual Perspective The commemoration day of St. Mary Magdalene brings to mind in general the role of women in the Orthodox Church. Orthodoxy has a ...

the Greek comedy where the women of Athens refrained from sleeping with their husbands in order to pressure them to end the Peloponnesian War. (JTA) — Orthodox women activists are pledging to ...

The Greek Orthodox Community of Whittlesea commemorated International Women’s Day with a special event on Saturday, honouring ...

The social position of Byzantine women is not easy to assess considering the vast reach of the empire and the many cultures it encompassed.

The initiative aims to increase women’s participation in synagogues in a way the group feels is consonant with Orthodox tradition. NEW YORK (JTA) — The Orthodox Union is founding its own ...

BEST OF 2019: Photographer Federica Valabrega takes us inside the secretive lives of Orthodox Jewish women from around the globe, from New York to Jerusalem. Video by Sebastián Díaz Aguirre ...

Ultra-Orthodox women trapped in unwanted marriages are known ... One of the earliest references to sex strikes is in a play by ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes called Lysistrata, which ...

The abandoned ghost village of Levissi (known today as Kayaköy) was once an area bustling with Greeks on the slopes of a hill ...

This weekend, Lower Merion’s Rabbanit Leah Sarna will be installed as the first senior rabbinic leader of Kehillat Sha’arei Orah, an Orthodox synagogue in Bala Cynwyd, reports Rabba Sara ...