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Moses Michael Levi Barrow. who rapped under the stage name "Shyne," prays at the Western Wall in a Jerusalem in a scene from the new documentary, "The Honorable Shyne."

Hulu’s ‘The Honorable Shyne’ documents the Jewish rapper’s beef with Diddy, new life as politician

By STEPHEN SILVER/JTA

40 years later, a 'baal teshuva' looks back

By MICHAEL FREUND

Screenshot of CCTV footage posted by Shomrim CH showing attempted kidnapping, 9/11/2024

Masked man attempts to kidnap Orthodox Jewish boy in Crown Heights

By Mathilda Heller

Students pray after listening to Sapir Cohen, a freed Israeli hostage, speak during an Evening of Unity event at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women on August 27, 2024 in New York City.

‘I’m an American, but I’m also Jewish’: How Orthodox women in college are voting for president

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA

A poll worker drops in drive through ballots into a ballot box in San Diego, California, US, March 3, 2020.

Grapevine: Vote now

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

Sperm tubes are placed in bank to store genetic code, reproduction clones.

What to do when the (sperm) bank is overcrowded and underused

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Zalman Newfield, left, and Naomi Seidman are organizers of the conference, "After Orthodoxy: Cultural Creativity and the Break with Tradition.” )

A NYC conference celebrates the cultural creativity of formerly Orthodox Jews

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

Supporters of Malky Berkowitz launched a “mikvah strike” — a form of protest that leverages Jewish sexual purity rituals as a pressure tactic for Malky's husband to give her a divorce. (Design by Jackie Hajdenberg.

New York woman initiates Orthodox ‘sex strike’ to receive her Jewish divorce

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA

Israeli singer-songwriter Hanan Ben Ari performs at fundraising event for Loewenstein Hospital in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2021.

Connecting hearts: Israeli singer Hanan Ben Ari performs for wounded IDF soldiers

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary David Cameron attend the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting at Marina da Gloria, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil February 21, 2024.

G20 welcomes Israeli Jewish organization for the first time

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

NYPD recruit Allan Pearlman outside the police academy.

Orthodox NYPD recruit to receive top award at police graduation

By Luke Tress/JTA

Jacob Steinmetz was promoted to the Arizona Diamondbacks' High-A affiliate, the Hillsboro Hops, on June 18.

Orthodox minor-league pitcher Jacob Steinmetz stays focused on the game

By Jacob Gurvis/JTA

A female IDF soldier paints a comrade with mud.

IDF to launch gender-specific combat unit for religious women

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Goldschmidt and Neuberger emphasized the importance of working with the Haredi community's leaders

In rare public conversation, haredi organization leaders of TATYA open up about the community

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Gladys and Herman Sturman with their daughter Esther Rabi on her wedding day in June 1985.

Gladys and Esther: A family's history

By Ellie Kahn

A MAN looks at a Lag Ba’omer bonfire on Saturday night in Jerusalem. The joy and warmth of Lag Ba’Omer stand in stark contrast to the pain and sorrow of the past months, the writer notes.

Lag Ba’Omer is a beacon of unity amid the trials of our time

By TZILI SCHNEIDER

An unidentified man assaults Jewish children in in New York. May 12, 2024.

Jewish children savagely beaten by man in New York City attack

By MICHAEL STARR

Alex Edelman, 7.4.14

Alex Edelman’s ‘Just For Us’ premieres with Jewish identity and antisemitism again in the spotlight

By BEN SALES/JTA