Based on the true story of Deborah Feldman, a Jewish woman who left the Satmar community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in search of a new life, the hit Netflix series “Unorthodox” has brought Hasidic ...

Last year a grocery store on Lee Avenue in ultra-Orthodox South Williamsburg caught the eye of the secular world with its dress code prohibiting shoppers from sporting low cut necklines and short ...

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(RNS) The New York City Commission on Human Rights is suing ultra-Orthodox Jewish business owners in Brooklyn because they posted signs calling on customers to dress modestly in their stores. The ...

JERUSALEM — Images of ultra-Orthodox Jews dressing up as Nazi concentration camp inmates during a protest drew widespread condemnation Sunday and added a new twist to a simmering battle over growing ...

A senior spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church has proposed the introduction of a dress code for all Russian men and women. Well, mostly women. In a short article published on the Interfax news ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian feminists expressed outrage Wednesday after the country's Orthodox Church proposed women dress more modestly and refrain from walking down the street "painted like a clown." ...

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