Tamar Rotem

When religious women became fed up with the passive role relegated to them, they saw the permission for women to read the Megillah aloud as a window of opportunity.

The Education Ministry's announcement that high schoolers will have to learn to recite poetry has sparked heated controversy among veteran educators and writers.

The gay religious community in Israel is represented by three different organizations, reflecting divergent views on rabbinical authority, consummation of same-sex relations and raising families.

Several new books are trying to help children growing up in less traditional families make sense of their world.

One of America's most renowned young-adult fiction authors reveals why she is still relevant after so many years, while kids have changed so much.

Alina Roise and Maxim Sardikov are confronting the rabbinic authorities in court, in the hope that no other converted couple will go through the bitter experience they had.

Marrying off children is a happy affair, but sometimes Haredi parents must shoulder a heavy financial burden as a result.

The origin stories of several Hanukkah customs practiced today as part of tradition.

Some recommendations for Hanukkah excursions.

After a Haredi developer appealed a rabbinical court ruling to a state court, the judge focused not on the rabbis' findings, but on the fact that they had turned a blind eye to a blatantly illegal agreement.

Kids' bookstore Emily and Peppo will soon be closing, another victim of the large chains and the "sale culture" they perpetuate, according to the owner.

As extremists in the ultra-Orthodox community increasingly dominate the public sphere, gender segregation is spreading. Have you heard about separate checkout lines for men and women at the grocery store?

Chucking the television can give parents more quality time with their kids. Just watch out for the beckoning computer screen.

Many of the violent and disruptive protests in the Haredi community are organized by a tiny group nicknamed the Sikarikim. Now members of more mainstream ultra-Orthodox sects are beginning to stand up to them

An entire genre of religious artists show their work only in sukkot, and only during the holiday. But the practice is fading as the artists age

A small community in Betar Ilit, an innovative publication and a series of conferences all embody a recent trend among the newly observant: to find their own religious and social identity - as opposed to that of the veteran ultra-Orthodox world.

New Jewish studies curriculum is in part a product of a trend that has caught on in Israel which involves a 'return to the Jewish bookshelf.'

The discomfort of wearing modest clothing, in multiple layers, during the steamy summer months is simply not a matter for discussion in ultra-Orthodox circles.

The Education Ministry hopes its expert-approved lists will get Israeli children reading. But can bureaucrats pick books that kids will actually enjoy?

Israeli artists seem to treat superheroes like kryptonite. Is it society, socialism or do we just have no need of a flying man in a latex suit?

Six years after the abuse apparently ended, residents of a Haredi moshav have finally begun to testify about the alleged sexual attacks of two male residents on the community's children. Those who complain are being shunned.

Police are investigating a man who allegedly sexual abused dozens of children on Moshav Kommemiyut over two decades.

A return visit to the Children's Museum of Holon, now celebrating its tenth anniversary, sparks ambivalent feelings, at least for this adult

Dental hygiene among the ultra-Orthodox is often disastrous, a consequence of lack of both money and awareness. The new reform in dental care may help the situation, but some are dubious