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.

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

 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

 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


Letters to the Editor: July 20, 2022: We don't recognize

Readers of the Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Unanimity is not everything when it comes to the Kotel crisis - opinion

The Jewish Agency leadership passed a watered-down resolution to the point that even Eretz Hakodesh party did not have any reason to oppose it.

 WOMEN OF the Wall hold their monthly prayer at the Kotel, earlier this month

The writing was on the wall about violence at the Kotel - opinion

This past Rosh Hodesh, a group of rowdy and misled teens, who came to protest the monthly Women of the Wall event, blew up a bar mitzvah celebration.

 ANAT HOFFMAN holds a Torah scroll at a Western Wall prayer service on the occasion of Rosh Hodesh. The very people who have turned the Kotel into a battleground are now crying foul, says the writer.

Yair Lapid, do the right thing for the Western Wall - opinion

Why is my country shaming me for my Jewish practice? Is my desire to be an equal Jew a “finger in someone’s eye?”

 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.

Female officer barred from hosting IDF ceremony at Western Wall

A Western Wall Heritage Foundation representative asked that an education officer in the Givati Brigade not host a swearing-in ceremony on Thursday due to her gender, and she was replaced.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett participates in graduating ceremony for IDF officers.

Haredi people have staked their claim for Jewish institutions

RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS: The failure of the Western Wall compromise made the ultra-orthodox community more determined to take control.

 WOMEN OF THE WALL participants and protesters, some holding Word Zionist Organization flags, confront each other at the Kotel earlier this month.

WZO strongly condemns the violence towards Women of the Wall

150 members of the Women of the Wall were met with resistance from both police and a group of Orthodox women as they attempted to conduct a prayer service at the Western Wall.

 Women of the Wall praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, January 2022

Board of Deputies of British Jews criticizes WZO over Kotel violence

Women of the Wall are demanding that Yaakov Hagoel, chairman of the World Zionist Organization and acting chairman of the Jewish Agency, take responsibility and apologize for violence that ensued.

 Women of the Wall praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, January 2022

WZO: We didn't fund Orthodox women's prayer service at the Kotel

"We understand that the World Zionist Organization (WZO) has launched an inquiry into the incident and we eagerly await its findings," Hagoel said.

 Women of the Wall prayer event for Rosh Hodesh Iyar, May 2, 2022

Backlash against Women of the Wall prayer sparks Western Wall tensions

World Zionist Organization holds Independence Day prayer service at the same time as Women of the Wall event

 Women of the Wall prayer event for Rosh Hodesh Iyar, May 2, 2022