Orthodox Judaism

Why some Orthodox women cover their hair, whether with wigs, hats or scarves.

Author, Zionist and chief rabbi of the British Empire for more than three decades.

This 20th-century rabbi was the leading Jewish law authority of his generation.

Once a name for sinners who repented, ba'al teshuvah now describes a Jew who returns to Orthodoxy — or becomes Orthodox for the first time.

Home of a famous Lithuanian-style yeshiva.

Austro-Hungarian rabbi who fought against the influence of Reform.

A curtain or other divider separates men and women while they pray in some synagogues.

The 19th-century rabbi who shaped a modern Orthodox community in bridging traditional practice and Enlightenment thinking.