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Julia Fox has made a rare red carpet appearance with her son Valentino, months after being excluded from his baptism. The 35-year-old actress, who shares her four-year-old son with ex-husband Peter ...

A US Orthodox Influencer Spoke Against Russia's War. Then, She Was Ousted as a Nun Before 2022, Sister Vassa Larin was best known as an Orthodox nun who taught thousands on YouTube about saints and ...

An Orthodox Jewish family’s federal discrimination lawsuit against their Boca Raton homeowner association suffered a setback recently but the family says it’s determined to continue its fight.

The Moldovan government and the EU denounced a Russian disruption campaign ahead of the 28 September elections in the country. Security experts in Chișinău say the Russian and the local Orthodox ...

Ukrainian government moves to ban Orthodox church branch it says failed to completely sever longstanding ties with pro-war Moscow. Action deepens religious battleground in war, coming year after ...

A man has been arrested in north London after a string of assaults targeting Orthodox Jewish women and a young child in Stamford Hill, according to Jewish community watch group Shomrim. The incidents ...

JTA — For 48 years, until he moved to Israel earlier this year, Rabbi Yosef Blau was the “mashgiach ruchani” at Yeshiva University, a revered figure who served as a sort of spiritual guidance ...

An open letter signed by over 180 mainstream American Orthodox Rabbis has been published by the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), which represents over 2000 Orthodox American Rabbis. The letter is in ...