Tag: Kotel Women Segregation
The Western Wall prayer controversy: separating fact from fiction
Before an Arab terror attack that killed two Israeli policemen ignited the latest wave of tension over the Temple Mount, much of the Jewish world’s attention had focused on an internal Jewish controversy surrounding...
Israel, Diaspora at brink of serious rift, us Jewish leader warns
A top US Conservative rabbi urged MKs Monday to understand the precarious situation of the Jewish people in light of recent clashes between the Diaspora and Israel over issues of religious pluralism.
Speaking at a meeting hosted...
Bernstein: Israel Cabinet decisions greatly affect American Jews
According to the Sages of the Talmud, sinat hinam, causeless hatred, among Jews destroyed the Temple. We no longer have the Temple, but 50 years since the Six-Day War, the Kotel (Western Wall), our last remnant of...
AIPAC leaders warn Netanyahu of ‘crisis of faith’ among US Jews with freeze on...
Three AIPAC leaders reportedly told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “we have lost the incentive to act for Israel” and of a “crisis of faith” among American Jews in the aftermath of the freezing...
Knesset votes down Kotel compromise
The government plan regarding an expanded egalitarian section of the Western Wall was rejected yet again on Wednesday, when it was brought to a vote in the form of a bill.
Zionist Union MK Nachman...