Tag: Kotel
Leading Reform Rabbi: Kotel controversy should spur American Jews to engage more with Israel
A leading American Reform rabbi said that the best approach to the controversy over canceled plans for an egalitarian prayer area at the Kotel, or Western Wall, would be for American Jews to become...
American Jews plan campaign to change Israeli minds about Judaism’s diversity
American Jewish leaders, outraged by a recent Israeli government decision to abandon an agreement to create a pluralistic, state-funded prayer space at the Western Wall, plan to plead their case directly to the Israeli...
Trump administration wants resolution to Kotel crisis, us official says
The Trump administration is engaging with the Israeli government and American Jewish community leaders in order to encourage resolution to a growing crisis over the state of prayer at the Western Wall, an administration...
Bibi hits a wall
When push came to shove, when he had to pick between politics and principle, between personal power and Jewish unity, between his position and his people, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu caved. He picked his...
How Bibi Just Gave Liberal Jews The Finger — And What We Can Do...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just gave the finger to a huge chunk of American Jews and, by doing so, dangerously upset the already precarious relationship between the Israeli government and the Diaspora.
There is...
Netanyahu insists Western Wall Prayer plan isn’t dead
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the leaders of U.S. Jewish federations on Monday that any other premier would have given in to pressure from ultra-Orthodox political parties and completely canceled the plan for an...
What the Collapse of the Western Wall Compromise Means for Israel, and for Zionism
For the past eighteen months, Israel’s ultra-Orthodox parties have succeeded in holding up the implementation of a compromise approved by the Netanyahu government that would create a mixed-sex prayer area at the Western Wall....
L.A. clergy respond to the Kotel controversy
The prime minister, who claims to speak for all Jews, has betrayed a significant portion of the Jewish people by giving in to Charedi demands. He is not a man of his word or...
Jewish leaders rethink ties with Netanyahu, Israeli government
The Jewish Agency, the world's largest Jewish nonprofit group, will reevaluate its relationship with the Israeli government after two decisions that have sparked outrage in the Jewish world, according to the organization's new chairman of...
Israel’s prime minister is keeping gender segregation at Judaism’s holiest site
At the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Judaism’s holiest site, women and men pray in sharply divided separate sections. There is no intermingling. That separation has long rankled progressive Jews in Israel and around the...