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A senior spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church has proposed the introduction of a dress code for all Russian men and women. Well, mostly women. In a short article published on the Interfax news ...

Last year a grocery store on Lee Avenue in ultra-Orthodox South Williamsburg caught the eye of the secular world with its dress code prohibiting shoppers from sporting low cut necklines and short ...

In the hot sun of a Jerusalem afternoon, kids wait for a fountain to turn on. When water spouts into the air, 9-year-old Tzipora Baranas jumps right in. She's wearing black tights, a black, ...

(RNS) The New York City Commission on Human Rights is suing ultra-Orthodox Jewish business owners in Brooklyn because they posted signs calling on customers to dress modestly in their stores. The ...

We’ve all seen the movies. In “27 dresses,” Katherine Heigl parades around in a series of hideous bridesmaid gowns, each puffier, shinier and more ungaptchka than the last. In “My Big Fat Greek ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian feminists expressed outrage Wednesday after the country's Orthodox Church proposed women dress more modestly and refrain from walking down the street "painted like a clown." ...

JERUSALEM — Images of ultra-Orthodox Jews dressing up as Nazi concentration camp inmates during a protest drew widespread condemnation Sunday and added a new twist to a simmering battle over growing ...

(RNS) — Pedestrians who encounter Rabbi Levi Greenberg, of El Paso, Texas, know that the Chabad rabbi, who wears a black hat and a long beard, is a Hasidic Jew. Sometimes they ask him why he dresses ...

MOSCOW — A top official of the increasingly powerful Russian Orthodox Church has triggered a storm of outrage by calling for a “national dress code” that would force women to dress modestly in public ...