The Tradition Rooted in Modesty and Spiritual Practice In many Orthodox Jewish communities, married women cover their hair as ...

Editor's Note: This article is part of a lohud series on Orthodox Jewish women in Rockland County. The purpose of this series is to educate the public about Orthodox Jews in order to build ...

The first item encountered in The Jewish Museum’s superb new show is a bulky black chadur. Jewish women in mid-20th-century Herat, Afghanistan, wore this long wide garment when they’d go out in the ...

"You are what you wear" might be a colloquial, less scholarly way to frame the premise of "Veiled Meanings: Fashioning Jewish Dress," a new touring show at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Drawn from ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. Wonder Woman is ...

BEDFORD HEIGHTS, Ohio -- The much-anticipated 52nd annual Designer Dress Days, a National Council of Jewish Women-Cleveland fundraiser, is still a go in this year of COVID-19 -- with a few changes.

The current exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Veiled Meanings, makes the compelling argument that historical Jewish dress is world dress. Drawing from the collection of The Israel Museum ...

Hilary Danailova’s recent cheerfully titled article “Jewish Suffragists, White Dresses and Yellow Roses” in Hadassah Magazine is intriguing. Jewish suffragists? As a woman who is Jewish and Black, ...