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Isaac Herzog, left, speaks with outgoing Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky following Herzog’s election as the next chairman at the Jewish Agency Board of Governors’ meetings in Jerusalem on June 24, 2018. Photo credit: Nir Kafri/The Jewish Agency for Israel.

Heed the lessons of Natan Sharansky

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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...
Jewish worshippers pack the area in front of Jerusalem’s Western Wall for the "Birkat Kohanim," or "Priestly Blessing," during the holiday of Sukkot on Oct. 8, 2017. Credit: Yaakov Lederman/Flash90.

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...
Israeli Minister of Sports and Culture Miri Regev speaks to the press at the sports ministry’s offices in Tel Aviv on June 6, 2018. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.

Citing ‘conscience,’ culture minister hampers plans for Western Wall prayer plaza

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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...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the 2018 AIPAC policy conference. Credit: AIPAC.

One Jewish people, two dissonant tribes

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What do you do about a relative who loves you but won’t listen to your concerns? That’s the likely American Jewish reaction to news about a new poll of Israeli opinion that signals both good...

Permits requested to expand egalitarian prayer section at Jerusalem’s Western Wall

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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

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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...

US reform leaders condemn body searches of women at Western Wall

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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...

Chief Rabbinate contests high court jurisdiction over Western Wall prayer

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The Chief Rabbinate maintained in a position statement to the High Court of Justice on Monday that the court has no authority to intervene on the issue of prayer rights for progressive Jews at...

Conservative, Reform movements escalate fight for Western Wall equal rights

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After the Western Wall egalitarian area plan was cancelled in June and caused a rift with Diaspora Jewry, the issue of prayers at the Western Wall is expected to heat up again next week,...

The Western Wall prayer controversy: separating fact from fiction

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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...