Women of the Wall

Women of the Wall call on Katz to include women in national Remembrance Day ceremony

The letter deplored that women had never had a significant role in the ceremony at the Western Wall, other than lighting the ceremonial torch.

|ByTZVI JASPER
A HOLOCAUST survivor lights a torch during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day.
A FAMILY prays at the section of the Kotel designated for non-Orthodox worship.

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.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
WOMEN OF the Wall members hold Rosh Hodesh prayers at the Ezrat Israel pluralistic prayer ground, 2019.

Women of the Wall attempt to smuggle Torah scroll in baby stroller, inciting clashes

One worker was taken to the hospital as a result of the clashes, who was allegedly attacked by a Women of the Wall activist.

|ByEFRAT PORSHER
ANAT HOFFMAN in tallit: Concluded a chapter, but not scaling down WoW work.

Women of the Wall's Anat Hoffman, wired to fight for pluralism

WoW board chairwoman Anat Hoffman has battled for 35 years for women’s right to pray and read the Torah at the Western Wall. At 70, she carries on the fight from her less stressful Haifa community.

|ByJUDITH SUDILOVSKY

Empowering women: Israel's Knesset hosts special conference for International Women's Day

Stormy separate Knesset committee discussion over funding for a forum that combats domestic violence cut short

MARCH 5, 2024ByELIAV BREUER
Women protest at Habima Square in Tel Aviv against the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US, June 28, 2022.

My vote for City Council: A vote for a liberal, Israeli Jerusalem - opinion

“It’s time to choose: A messianic Jerusalem or an Israeli Jerusalem?”

FEBRUARY 25, 2024ByBRIAN BLUM
YOCHI RAPPEPORT

Court demands answers on chief rabbi's hate speech against LGBTQ, Reform Jews

The Jerusalem chief rabbi has blamed earthquakes on LGBTQ people and called Reform Jews "evil people."

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Shlomo Amar visits at a Yeshiva in Hispin, northern Israel, October 21, 2021.

Western Wall guards violated court ruling, Women of the Wall claim

The Women of the Wall said that their bags were searched and a Torah scroll was confiscated.

AUGUST 18, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Women of the Wall read from a Torah scroll at the Western Wall on the seventh day of Hanukkah, December 25, 2022.

Grapevine July 28, 2023: Minor triumph for Women of the Wall

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JULY 28, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
ANAT HOFFMAN holds a Women of the Wall press conference at the Kotel.

Letters to the Editor July 26, 2023: Come to a compromise

Readers of the Jerusalem Post have their say.

JULY 25, 2023ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters

Israeli court upholds 'fair and unbiased' inspections at Western Wall

In a lawsuit, the court stipulated that the entrance inspection shall be conducted in alignment with the Law of Powers for the Protection of Public Security.

JULY 20, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
A WOMAN holds up a Torah scroll as members of Women of the Wall and the Conservative and Reform movements chant and pray on Rosh Hodesh Adar II at the Kotel, in March.

Women of the Wall have become an oppositional force - opinion

Even if initially their intentions could be viewed with some positivity, today they have become an oppositional body.

JULY 20, 2023ByCHAGIT MOSHE
Women of the Wall celebrate after regrouping at the Egalitarian Section of the Western Wall in 2019.

All prayer books are sacred, including those belonging to Women of the Wall – opinion

Two years ago, a group of fervent extremists felt they had the right to destroy 39 precious prayer books belonging to Women of the Wall, leaving torn pages scattered throughout the Kotel Plaza.

JUNE 25, 2023ByDEBORAH KATCHKO-GRAY
MEMBERS OF Women of the Wall arrive for Rosh Hodesh prayers at the Western Wall, earlier this year.

Women of the Wall pray and protest at Jerusalem's Western Wall

Women of the Wall continued to be a controversial presence at the Western Wall during their Rosh Hodesh prayer services on Monday.

JUNE 20, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
A WOMAN holds up a Torah scroll as members of Women of the Wall and the Conservative and Reform movements chant and pray on Rosh Hodesh Adar II at the Kotel, in March.