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Thousands attend Western Wall prayer session for the return of hostages

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A special prayer session for the hostages being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and for the safety of Israeli forces was held at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on Wednesday. The...
An artistic depiction of the First Temple in Jerusalem. Image: Tombah/Wikimedia

The Babylonian bubble

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A terrible scene flashed across our screens the other day. It was late afternoon on Friday as Shabbat was coming in and suddenly the sirens sounded. Jerusalem was under attack. Alarms blaring, all the...
Chanukah menorah. Credit: Ri-Ya/Pixabay.

Chanukah memories

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As a young boy, I eagerly anticipated Chanukah. While I loved watching the number of candles increase each night and eagerly anticipated my parents’ gifts, my special delight came once my father set up...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lights the first Chanukah candle at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Dec. 7, 2023. Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Netanyahu lights first Chanukah candle at Western Wall

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, lit the first Chanukah candle on Thursday evening at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Below is the text of his address: “We are here by the remnant...
Engineers check the integrity and clean the stones of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Aug. 29, 2023. Credit: The Western Wall Heritage Foundation.

Engineers inspect Western Wall ahead of High Holidays

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As Jews prepare for the High Holidays, engineers on Tuesday began getting the holy site ready for the thousands of visitors expected there. The engineers, working for the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, which administers the...
Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides offers a prayer at the Western Wall, July 12, 2023. Credit: Western Wall Heritage Foundation.

US envoy to Israel visits Western Wall ahead of departure

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Some 20 months after his official confirmation as Washinton's envoy to Israel, U.S. Ambassador Thomas Nides this week ended his tenure in the Jewish state. Coming full circle, the diplomat on Wednesday paid a final...
United States House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel, April 30, 2023. Credit: Western Wall Heritage Foundation.

US House speaker at Western Wall: ‘Israel is a blessed nation’

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United States House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy and a bipartisan delegation of lawmakers opened their visit to Israel on Sunday at the Western Wall. The 20-member delegation of Republican and Democrat lawmakers was welcomed...
Ivanka Trump, the daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on May 22, 2017. Photo by Mendy Hechtman/Flash90.

Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump visit Israel, pray at Western Wall in Jerusalem

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Jared Kushner, a senior adviser and envoy to the Middle East in the Trump administration—also the son-in-law of former President Donald Trump—and his wife, Ivanka Trump, visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Wednesday. They...
Jewish worshippers cover themselves with prayer shawls at the Western Wall (Kotel) in Jerusalem during the Kohanim Benediction for the Jewish holiday of Passover, April 18, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Subdued holiday blessing at Western Wall as tensions clamped to keep the calm

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Israeli security forces got what they were seeking: quiet. And, to some extent, Arab rioters got what they wanted: a depressed turnout. With Jerusalem on edge and the threat of violence palpable, Monday morning’s Birkat...
Leaders of the Reform and Conservative movements meet with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Jerusalem, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. Photo: GPO/Kobi Gideon.

Haredim livid as Bennett meets Reform, Conservative leaders

Israel’s prime minister met on Monday with the heads of the Reform and Conservative movements to advance the framework agreement for egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall. The meeting, which came after a nearly...