Kotel

Beyond the Headlines: Moments at Ben-Gurion Airport, the Kotel - opinion

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

Passengers at the Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv on September 18, 2025.
An IDF orphan, wearing a beret from the Nachal Brigade, celebrating his bar mitzvah at the Kotel in Jerusalem, October 20, 2025.

Forty-eight IDF orphans mark bnei mitzvah at Western Wall

 Central Selichot services at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. August 24, 2023

The future of our people: Strength, love, safety in our youth - opinion

The sign at the entrance to the Old City

Beyond the headlines: Where will you be for the holiday prayer?


Priestly Blessing ceremony draws thousands to Jerusalem - photo gallery

"The public clings to the remains of our Temple.”

 Priestly Blessing ceremony on April 20, 2022

Thousands participate at Birkat Kohanim, a lot less than usual

Though this year's attendance was poorer than usual, thousands participated at Monday's Birkat Kohanim at the Western Wall Plaza.

 Priestly blessing at the Western Wall in Jerusalem during Passover, April 18, 2022

Israel's gov't to preserve Western Wall's Orthodox character - Silman

Coalition Chairwoman Idit Silman: "Yes, there is a minority [of support for the compromise] and it is our role to make sure that its voice isn't strong and significant and that it does not prevail."

 THE MASSES pray at the Western Wall during Sukkot.

When wearing a kippah in Jerusalem is dangerous - opinion

This is Jerusalem, my hometown, where you should be safe wearing whatever head covering you desire.

 HAREDIM SCUFFLE with police at the Kotel, in protest of Women of the Wall’s Rosh Hodesh prayer service, March 4.

Tensions will be high at Kotel for Rosh Hodesh service on Friday

Reform and Conservative movements are expected to march toward the Western Wall while Haredim are arranging protests.

ANAT HOFFMAN (center), director of Women of the Wall, speaks to reporters at the Kotel yesterday.

March 4, 2022: Senseless wars of the Jews

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 MARIA TAMANA

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.

 ‘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.

 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.

Letters

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.

 PRAYERS AT the Kotel.