For the first time, the largest branch in American Judaism has agreed to ordain rabbis who are in interfaith marriages. DAVID FOLKENFLIK, HOST: ...

To obtain a religiously accepted separation in Judaism, women require a bill of divorce known as a gett. But they can only be granted by a husband to his wife — and Meyer's husband refused.

(CNN) — Ancient DNA is spilling more secrets about the Avars, a fearsome people who built a mysterious empire that ruled much of Central and Eastern Europe for 250 years from the mid-sixth century.

Meanwhile, ancient Egyptian royals sometimes married their siblings — a practice that may have reflected religious beliefs — and pharaohs sometimes married their own daughters.

Just as much as Judaism tries to control women converting to Judaism, so does it seem to control born-Jewish women by keeping them Jewish. According to PEW's Research Faith in Flux report from April ...