Now, more than ever before, Orthodox Jewish women are serving as CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies, founding their own successful start-ups, and taking leadership roles in health care, law ...

For some women, such as those described in the chapter on Hasidic women’s dress, religious identity and clothing saturate women’s everyday lives. For other women, the role of religion within ...

With all the clothing restrictions Hasidic women face in the sweltering heat, shedding the layers for a dip in the city’s public pools is allowed. But the pool area must be male-free, and that ...

Though much else separates them, religious women of Muslim, Christian and Jewish backgrounds struggle with similar issues related to their clothing. According to Devora Zlochower, an Orthodox ...

Hasidic Jews form a small but highly visible sliver of the Jewish community, constituting less than 6% of U.S. Jews. Hasidic people (called Hasidim, from the Hebrew), tend to dress distinctively ...