Explore the debate on public funding for religious schools, as a Jewish group aims to establish a virtual charter school.

US Air Force judge advocate Rena Winick Weinstein wasn’t quite sure what she wanted to do with her life when she graduated high school. As an Orthodox Jew, Weinstein was certain of one thing: She ...

A Florida-based former member of Congress is eyeing the possibility of launching a virtual Jewish religious charter school in Oklahoma, months after a Catholic attempt to do so failed.

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Once men and women take the same exam, ‘every community can decide for themselves what kind of teacher or leadership model they want,’ said Michelle Shelemay Dvir, a religious ...

When the U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked this year in a case over whether charter schools can be religious, experts said it ...

For decades, liberal denominations have permitted women to be ordained. Orthodox Judaism, however, has largely prohibited it. Yet attitudes toward women’s study of rabbinic texts are changing.

On eight consecutive nights, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah for Hanukkah — ...