With backing from Latter-day Saint leaders and local donors, a once-crowded congregation opens a church built on interfaith ...

NEW YORK (AP) — As a growing number of American Jews are Orthodox, a greater percent is Republican. Still, the majority of American Jews remain Democrats.

Nishma pollster Mark Trencher said 678 respondents in this year’s poll identified as Haredi — Hasidic or Yeshivish Jews who belong to a sect or follow a particular rabbi. Modern Orthodox Jews ...

This year, Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox Christians will mark Easter on the same day, Sunday, April 20. The shared date is relatively rare due to the different calendars used by Western and ...

A new book details an Orthodox Jewish woman's journey from married to a man to an out LGBT. Getty Images By 19, Sara – nee Malka – Glass got everything an ultra-religious Jewish woman from the ...

An Orthodox Jewish passenger says a United Airlines pilot forcibly removed him from an airplane bathroom while he was experiencing constipation, exposing his genitalia to other flyers during a ...

Israel's political crisis deepens as ultra-Orthodox parties threaten to leave Netanyahu's coalition over military conscription exemptions, potentially triggering early elections.

Using survey data from 2020 through 2023, the study found 44 percent of Orthodox churches remained open during the pandemic, compared to just 12 percent of all US congregations. Only 31 percent of ...

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has been banned in Ukraine. Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) Metropolitan Onufriy (center) during a prayer at Saint Volodymyr Hill marking the ...

One in seven Jews worldwide are strictly Orthodox, or Haredi. It’s a population of roughly 2 million out of 15 million Jews, according to Daniel Staetsky, a demographer with the London-based ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Frieda Vizel left an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect in New York in a crisis of faith at 25. But instead of cutting ties, she became a successful online personality and guide to the ...