Posts Tagged: Women of the Wall
Western Wall Chaos: Rabbis Protest, Far-Right Activists Clash with Police
i24 News - Jerusalem's Western Wall saw chaos on Wednesday morning as hundreds of Reform Jewish rabbis from the United States joined the Women of...
Hypocritical Israeli Coalition Politics Get Ugly
JNS.org - For some observers of the Israeli political scene, there’s only one thing that matters. For the Biden administration, the crucial question is whether...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Equality for Orthodox Jewish Women
There was an audible gasp as she entered the room. Flanked by bodyguards, with her white gloves prominent, Ruth Bader Ginsburg took a seat next...
Groups Petition Israeli High Court for Expanded Western Wall Egalitarian Prayer Section
JNS.org - The Masorti (Conservative) Movement in Israel, the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, and the Women of the Wall prayer rights group brought...
Israeli High Court Urges State to Reconsider Western Wall Compromise Freeze
Israel Hayom / Exclusive to JNS.org – Israel’s High Court of Justice on Thursday criticized the Israeli government over its stance on the issue of egalitarian...
What’s Really Happening at the Western Wall?
JNS.org - Before an Arab terror attack ignited the latest wave of tensions over the Temple Mount, much of the Jewish world’s attention had been focused...
Let My Dad Pray at the Western Wall
JNS.org -- My dad is coming from the US to visit us in Israel this week. As always, we will devote one morning to praying at...
Hack the Kotel
JNS.org - The battle being fought over access to the Western Wall (Kotel), which accelerated this week with a strong reprimand of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by...
The Western Wall Is No Place for Political Posturing
JNS.org - Charlie Kalech is upset. Kalech is the Internet entrepreneur who broke Israeli law last year on behalf of the Women of the Wall (WoW),...
Anat Hoffman’s Blooming Orchids and Women of the Wall (INTERVIEW)
JNS.org - Anat Hoffman is a founding member of Women of the Wall, a religiously diverse group of women from around the world who seek equal...
All Jews Should Have Full Access to the Western Wall
I have been following the debate about the Kotel with utter astonishment. I was not planning to write about this, because by now the issue has...
The Western Wall Prayer Decision and the Shifting Israel-Diaspora Paradigm
JNS.org - The Israeli government’s passage of legislation that authorizes egalitarian prayer in a soon-to-be-created 9,700-square-foot, NIS 35 million ($8.85 million) section adjacent to the southern...
Israel Defines the Empowerment of Women, Even During Wartime
The Electronic Intifada recently published a piece that claims ending Zionism is a feminist issue, as a disproportionate number of women and children are being killed...
Shame on Rabbi Julie Schonfeld
Rabbi Julie Schonfeld is the first female rabbi to serve as the head of the Conservative movement. She was named the Executive Vice President of...
