Tag: Kotel
Heed the lessons of Natan Sharansky
Natan Sharansky is exiting the center stage of Jewish life. The 70-year-old former Soviet dissident and prisoner of Zion turned author, Israeli politician and, for the last eight years, the head of the Jewish...
Last-ditch efforts may salvage plan for mixed prayer at Western Wall
The saga surrounding the proposed establishment of an egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall took another turn as ministers voted by phone late Sunday night on a new panel for the Ministerial Committee on Holy...
Citing ‘conscience,’ culture minister hampers plans for Western Wall prayer plaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday removed Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev from her position as head of the Ministerial Committee for Holy Places in an effort to facilitate a planned expansion...
Permits requested to expand egalitarian prayer section at Jerusalem’s Western Wall
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office has recently requested permits to expand the egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
According to The Jerusalem Post, the Prime Minister’s Office made the request, which was approved...
US ‘envisions’ Western Wall as part of Israel, senior Trump official says
The Trump administration "cannot envision a scenario" under which the Western Wall, the last remnant of the Second Temple and one of the holiest sights in Judaism, "would not be part of Israel" in...
Netanyahu to Jewish Federations G.A.: All Jews should have access to the Kotel
Addressing the Jewish Federations of North America's General Assembly, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said that ''all Jews should have access to the Western Wall.''
''Religious matters have always been the product of evolution...
10,000 set to gather at Kotel for ‘day of Jewish unity’
Some 10,000 people are slated to attend a gathering at the Western Wall on Friday to pray for global peace and unity.
The initiative, named Day of Jewish Unity, is led by Dirshu, an international...
American rabbis threaten PM over frozen Kotel Agreement
Conservative leaders in the United States sent a scathing letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, in which they pressed him to unfreeze the Kotel egalitarian area plan, threatening to turn their represented...
Reform, Conservative Jews say Western Wall compromise effectively dead
In a move that may further ignite tensions between Israel and diaspora Jewry, the Reform and Conservative movements say they no longer agree with having an upgraded platform for egalitarian prayer just south of...
US reform leaders condemn body searches of women at Western Wall
The senior leadership of the Reform Movement in the US condemned the body searches conducted on women seeking to pray in a Women of the Wall service by officials at the Western Wall on Wednesday.
Worshipers in...