Kotel

High Court grills state, Jerusalem over years-long holdup at egalitarian Western Wall Plaza

The “Kotel Agreement,” a compromise approved by the government in January 2016, has been systematically pushed and held up by the government and the Jerusalem municipality.

FEBRUARY 17, 2026|BySARAH BEN-NUN

A FAMILY prays at the section of the Kotel designated for non-Orthodox worship.

Temple Mount’s delicate balance tested as Jewish prayer, Ramadan crowds meet

For decades after 1967, the Temple Mount was defined by a simple rule: Jews could visit but not pray. Small but meaningful changes are quietly shifting that balance.

FEBRUARY 13, 2026|ByNATAN ROTHSTEIN

THE TEMPLE MOUNT, which Muslims call the Haram al-Sharif, is holy to both Jews and Muslims and has been a flashpoint since 1967.

Jews pray on Jerusalem's Temple Mount as decades-old status quo begins to shift

Police are allowing limited Jewish prayer on Temple Mount, marking the most significant shift to the status quo since 1967 - and stirring quiet tension on one of the world’s most contested sites.

FEBRUARY 13, 2026|ByLINDA GRADSTEIN

'I never had a bar mitzvah,' lone soldiers from Ethiopia to celebrate at the Western Wall

The ceremony is expected to bring together soldiers and soldiers without immediate family in Israel, many of whom immigrated alone and joined the Israel Defense Forces.

FEBRUARY 11, 2026|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

The Western Wall: A chance to preserve history, ensure the future - opinion

What bitter irony that the Western Wall has become a touchstone of internal conflict in Israel and in the Diaspora at the same time that external enemies are gathering their strength.

FEBRUARY 24, 2022ByBARBARA SOFER

‘HOW DO I explain the straps and the boxes or my heart skipping...’

The Western Wall must be for all Jews

Today, after many years of struggle, there is a space for egalitarian prayer at the Kotel, but it is separate and unequal.

FEBRUARY 24, 2022ByRABBI JACOB BLUMENTHAL

An American family celebrates a bar mitzvah at Robinson's Arch, where egalitarian prayers take place at the Western Wall.

Letters to the Editor February 7, 2022: Kotel conundrum

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

FEBRUARY 6, 2022ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The Western Wall is for all Jews - opinion

God forbid if only Orthodox Jews would be welcome to come to pray at the Western Wall or at any other Jewish sacred place.

FEBRUARY 3, 2022BySHLOMO RISKIN

Violence and attacks by ultra-Orthodox people against women - opinion

Month after month, members of the ultra-Orthodox public violently attack Women of the Wall who attempt to pray in the women’s section of the Western Wall, as is their right and their practice.

FEBRUARY 1, 2022ByANNA KISLANSKI

THE WRITER visits the location of the Egalitarian Kotel.

The Kotel is still being ruled by Haredi parties - editorial

The fact that an Israeli government coalition cannot implement the 2016 Western Wall agreement that would give non-Orthodox Jewry equal footing at Judaism’s holiest site is wrong.

JANUARY 31, 2022ByJPOST EDITORIAL