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 ...

‘Dress code’ cannot be an outmoded method for objectifying women.” The Knesset spokesman ... JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong ...

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 ...