Tag: Western Wall
Israel, Diaspora at brink of serious rift, us Jewish leader warns
A top US Conservative rabbi urged MKs Monday to understand the precarious situation of the Jewish people in light of recent clashes between the Diaspora and Israel over issues of religious pluralism.
Speaking at a meeting hosted...
Bernstein: Israel Cabinet decisions greatly affect American Jews
According to the Sages of the Talmud, sinat hinam, causeless hatred, among Jews destroyed the Temple. We no longer have the Temple, but 50 years since the Six-Day War, the Kotel (Western Wall), our last remnant of...
AIPAC leaders warn Netanyahu of ‘crisis of faith’ among US Jews with freeze on...
Three AIPAC leaders reportedly told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “we have lost the incentive to act for Israel” and of a “crisis of faith” among American Jews in the aftermath of the freezing...
Knesset votes down Kotel compromise
The government plan regarding an expanded egalitarian section of the Western Wall was rejected yet again on Wednesday, when it was brought to a vote in the form of a bill.
Zionist Union MK Nachman...
Netanyahu’s unexpected confrontation with US Jews
The meeting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had with Jerry Silverman, the CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America, on June 27 failed to allay the tempest that the prime minister had just stirred up...
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...
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...