Tag: Kotel
Jewish Agency collects prayers to place in Western Wall ahead of Yom Kippur
The Jewish Agency for Israel has announced a global campaign to gather the prayers of Jews from Israel and around the world and place them among the stones of the Western Wall.
Because of restrictions...
More than 100,000 viewers worldwide tune in to online Torah event
More than 100,000 viewers worldwide tuned into a series of online lessons hosted this week by Yeshivat HaKotel, a major religious Zionist hesder yeshivah located across from the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Dubbed the “Jewish...
Jerusalem opens neighborhoods, commercial and spiritual centers to stimulate ‘local tourism’
In light of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s announced plan for a phased reopening of the economy and easing of restrictions, Jerusalem has reported distinctive challenges, as well as opportunities, for rehabilitation of its tourism...
Tens of thousands view prayer online at Western Wall to end coronavirus
A total of 50,000 people watched a prayer service online that took place at the Western Wall on Wednesday evening (29 Adar on the Jewish calendar), when dozens of worshipers prayed for the end of the...
104-year-old matriarch celebrates birthday at Kotel with 400 descendants
A 104 year-old Holocaust survivor went viral on Thursday when a photo was publicized showing her and her 400 descendants gathered at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
According to Yeshiva World News, the family of centarian...
What to do after ‘slaughter the Jews’ is spray-painted in Arabic on part of...
A young Arab girl and her older teenage sister spray-painted the words “slaughter the Jews” in Arabic on Friday on the Kotel HaKatan (“little wall” in Hebrew), a portion of the Western Wall on...
Why the Israelis aren’t as worked up about the Western Wall as Diaspora Jews
The future of prayer at the Western Wall has become one of the most contentious issues among Diaspora Jewry in the past year, mainly as a result of the Israeli government’s June 2017, suspension of a...
When a rock falls in a plaza . . .
In ancient times, people looked to portents involving the heavens and earthbound events in order to try to understand the baffling world in which we live, as well as to discern the will of...
Antiquities Authority experts to determine fate of dislodged rock from Western Wall
The 2,000-year-old slab of rock that dislodged from a section of the Western Wall on Monday, nearly crashing down on a 79-year-old woman at prayer, was removed from the area by crane two days later.
An official...
220-pound stone falls out of the Western Wall, narrowly missing a woman at prayer
A woman praying in the egalitarian prayer plaza was narrowly spared from death on Monday morning when a 220-pound stone fell out of the Western Wall and plummeted to the ground.
A woman—the only person...