Michele Chabin
Michele Chabin writes for Religion News Service.
Blog Posts by Michele Chabin
Posted by Michele Chabin 1 week 6 days ago
The Jewish Federations of North America announced Monday that its trustees had passed a resolution in favor of a nonsegregated place where men and women can pray and read from the Torah at the...
Posted by Michele Chabin 7 weeks 39 min ago
JERUSALEM — Religious leaders from around the world have stepped up their pleas for the safe return of two Syrian bishops who were kidnapped April 22 by armed men as they were driving near the war-...
Posted by Michele Chabin 7 weeks 5 days ago
JERUSALEM — Women who want to wear prayer shawls while praying in the women’s section of the Western Wall are not breaking the law, according to a landmark decision handed down Thursday by the...
Posted by Michele Chabin 10 weeks 4 days ago
JERUSALEM — The ultra-Orthodox rabbi in charge of the sacred Western Wall assured a government emissary on Thursday that Jewish women will not be arrested if they try to recite the mourner’s prayer...
Posted by Michele Chabin 15 weeks 4 days ago
The New York City Commissionon Human Rights is suing ultra-Orthodox Jewish business owners in Brooklyn because they posted signs calling on customers to dress modestly in their stores....
