We also find it particularly distressing to discuss attacks upon the layout and usage of the Western Wall prayer area, which was recently closed due to missile threats, at this time. Yet even with ...

When the Israeli cabinet approved a proposal intended to resolve a festering conflict between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews at the Western Wall, no one seemed to notice the parallels between this ...

Editor's note: We recently ran a blog, "A Conversation with Anat Hoffman," that outlined her reasons for compromising with the Israeli government on women’s prayer at the Kotel. Today, we present ...

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Thursday morning, I joined hundreds of women and men as we stood in solidarity at Judaism’s holiest site. We danced in celebration of a new Jewish month (Rosh Chodesh), we lifted our voices in song, ...

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Rabbi Zvi Yehudah Kook recalled the tremendous pressure placed upon his father, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, that evening in 1930 in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem. “How intense, how grave, ...

Anat Hoffman, a Reform Jew who is head of the controversial Women of the Wall group, spoke to the media Friday after members of her group held public prayers at the Kotel (Western Wall). “We are ...

The latest twist in the saga over women’s prayer at the Western Wall has seen the Women of the Wall group abandoning its previous support for the Sharansky plan. Tasked with finding a compromise ...

While some consider women’s group prayer proscribed in Jewish law, Original Women of the Wall demonstrates that with respect and tolerance, all Jewish women can practice according to their custom. Men ...

Once upon a time, not so long ago, the Kotel had no barrier separating the sexes. It was an open place of prayer, spirituality and meditation for all Jews. Those were the days when Jews were not ...

The Women of the Wall group snuck a miniature Torah scroll into the Kotel plaza on Friday after police refused to allow them to enter with their regular Torah scroll. The feminist group advocates ...