Fashion with a purpose: Seniors gather at a local JCC to knit intricate panels for the Mim & Ray handbag collection, launching this fall.

The president of the 1.6 million-member American Federation of Teachers is the first openly gay woman to preside over a labor union.

Growing numbers of Hasidim are leaving the fold, forging their own paths to a new life.

Lilith magazine is celebrating a big anniversary but placing its archives in the collections of Brandeis University.

The three-week Zeke Teen Travel program will take 16 teenagers to New York, Boston and Philadelphia to experience local food, fitness and culture.

Women across the United States still seek an alternative path to childbirth.

Rabbi Francine Green Roston is at the center of a confrontation between Jews and supporters of a local neo-Nazi.

To honor his Muslim, African-born mother, Ethan Greeley raised $20,000 to build a library in Burkina Faso as his bar mitzvah project.