Women of the Wall

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
A FAMILY prays at the section of the Kotel designated for non-Orthodox worship.
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
Women protest at Habima Square in Tel Aviv against the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US, June 28, 2022.

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

|ByELIAV BREUER

Public Security Minister Bar Lev promises to protect Women of the Wall

The announcement follows violent protests against egalitarian prayer at the holy site.

JUNE 21, 2021ByBEN BARUCH
WOMEN OF THE Wall hold a prayer service in the Western Wall plaza in 2019

Haredi Kotel riot, prayer book desecration a repeat of Romans - opinion

The 39 torn siddurim were each a lash on our souls individually and as a people.

JUNE 14, 2021ByYOCHI RAPPEPORT
39 SIDDURIM were torn this past Friday morning at the Kotel by ultra-Orthodox men and children.

WATCH: Women of the Walls' prayer books ripped by haredim at Western Wall

"Dozens of prayer books were attacked this morning in an assault on Women of the Wall. This is a hate crime, plain and simple," tweeted Meretz MK Mossi Raz.

JUNE 11, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
WOMEN OF THE Wall dance with a Torah scroll at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Women of the Wall and the Kotel – The hotspot of religious conflict in Israel?

MAY 13, 2021ByALAN ROSENBAUM
WOMEN OF THE Wall hold a prayer service in the Western Wall plaza in 2019

MK Kariv takes Torah scroll into Western Wall plaza causing stir

Labor MK uses parliamentary immunity to defy regulations at holy site, leading to intense opposition from Orthodox protestors.

APRIL 13, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
MK Kariv reads Torah scroll at Western Wall plaza

High Court questions renovation delays in Western Wall egalitarian section

‘Saddened by the significant delays in dealing with making the southern [prayer] section of the Western Wall fitting for prayer’

NOVEMBER 5, 2020ByJEREMY SHARON
The damaged prayer platform of the Western Wall egalitarian prayer section which has been shut for nearly two years due to delays in repair work to the stones of the wall and now to the platform itself.

Letters to the Editor, September 16, 2020: While my Qatar gently winks

The readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters

Letters to the Editor September 14, 2020: Right behind Bahrain

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters

Religious life in Jerusalem and Women of the Wall

I wonder if they keep the other Torah commandments, especially those for women.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020ByWALTER BINGHAM
CALLING THEMSELVES ‘Women of the Wall,’ they turn up at the beginning of each Jewish month for morning prayers, not to pray quietly alongside other women, but to begin a loud communal service with their own leader chanting the prayers and disturbing the devotion in that relatively small area.

Women of the Wall – your sisters invite you to dialogue – opinion

The stones of the Kotel have born witness to cultures rising and falling, as authentic Judaism has endured.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020ByLEAH AHARONI
WOMEN PRAY at the Western Wall Tunnels.