A lot, it turns out. “This was actually traditional clothing for high-society Jewish women until even the mid-20th century,” Efrat Assaf-Shapira, a curator of the museum’s vast collection of ...

(JTA) — Religious women are no strangers to having their clothing and bodies policed ... JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining ...

In many Hasidic Jewish communities ... men and women but is expressed differently in each case. For women, modesty extends beyond clothing to include behaviors, speech, and, significantly ...