Egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wal

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.

 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.
 PRAYERS TAKE place at the Western Wall on Tisha Be’av, last year.

The Western Wall: place of prayer or political protest? - opinion

 JEWS PRAY at the Western Wall on Jerusalem Day, last month.

Jewish Agency offers security at Kotel if government ‘won’t protect Jews’

 Pieces of siddurim printed by the Conservative movement and torn by haredi protestors.

Violence breaks out at Western Wall after boy blows nose on Siddur page


Construction starts on egalitarian prayer section at Western Wall

“They are not even beginning to heal the wounds the cancellation of the original plan caused.”

A man and woman pray at the egalitarian section of the Western Wall

In Pence-ive mood: Does a photograph always tell the whole story?

While America may be Israel’s best friend and ally, it has no right to give orders to the Israeli media.

US VICE President Mike Pence walks alongside President Reuven Rivlin during a formal reception ceremony at Beit Hanassi on Tuesday. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters).

Praying in the dark

Parashat Vayetze

THE BOOK of Psalms contains a verse that expresses the gap between day and night: ‘To declare in the morning Your kindness and Your faith at night’ (Psalms 92:3).

Violence breaks out at Kotel days after PM vows Wall for all

Violent scuffles break out again at the Western Wall as Reform group physically “asserts” its way into site with Torah scrolls and was forcibly resisted by police, security guards.

Security guards restrain Reform rabbis from entering the Western Wall complex on November 16th.

Poll: Majority support pluralistic prayer at Kotel

But survey of Jewish-Israelis shows near split on acceptance of women reading from the Torah

Anat Hoffman and another woman at the Entrance to Kotel; from Women of the Wall

Anat Hoffman: Advancing values of equality in the Jewish state

#8 on The Jerusalem Post's 50 Influential Jews Of 2017.

Anat Hoffman and another woman at the Entrance to Kotel; from Women of the Wall

Conservative movement gives PM chance to repent ahead of High Holy Days

The open letter addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discusses the North American Conservative movement's feelings of betrayal after the Western Wall and Conversion crises.

Rabbi Steven Wernick, CEO of USCJ (The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism) and Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, CEO of the Rabbinical Assembly hand delivered an open letter addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to  Dani Dayan, Consul General of Israel in New York, September 7, 2017.

Chief rabbi rage: A toxic clash of religion and politics

Amar, who referred to non-Orthodox Jews as “cursed” and people “who do every injustice in the world,” expressed himself in an exceptionally inappropriate manner for a man who holds an official title and who receives a salary from the state.

Former chief rabbi Shlomo Amar at Western Wall

Just Another Brick in the Wall?

The Jerusalem Post

California rabbis ask to be blacklisted by Israel's Chief Rabbinate

In solidarity with the 160 rabbis blacklisted by the Chief Rabbinate, San Diego rabbis requested to be added to the list.

David Lau