Posts Tagged: Women of the Wall
What’s Wrong With Women Wearing Teffilin?
One of the most significant daily rituals in Judaism is laying Tefilin, strapping leather boxes containing scrolls with certain Torah verses onto one's arm (against...
Women of the Wall Don’t Want to Compromise
JNS.org - Women of the Wall faced a tough choice this Rosh Chodesh. Though I don't agree with their goals, they could have finally been...
Israeli Knesset Members Get an Education in American Jewry
JNS.org - Israeli Member of Knesset Nachman Shai (Labor), who studied and worked in the U.S. for years, says he had no idea how...
The Extremists Among Us: A Prayer for the Jewish New Year
I was in South Africa, celebrating the Rabbinic ordination of our eldest son, Mendy, when a journalist contacted me from the States asking me to...
Israeli Government Announces New Western Wall Prayer Area
JNS.org - The Israeli government released a plan on Sunday to oversee the development of a new, temporary egalitarian space at the Western Wall in...
Treating Orthodox Jewish Women as Equals
As the father of young daughters who are blessed to attend Modern Orthodox yeshivas in Manhattan, my girls are taught that their potential is unlimited....
Thousands of Orthodox Seminary Girls Protest Women of the Wall
JNS.org - Between 5,000 and 7,000 ultra-Orthodox seminary girls turned out to at the Western Wall on Monday morning to counter and prevent the monthly...
Religious Tolerance and Mutual Respect Rather Than Polarization
The pivotal breakthrough which now seems likely to oblige Haredim to share the burden in terms of conscription and gainful employment, heralds a belated and...
The Western Wall Clashes: Searching for a New Way Together
Concerning Developments "Clashes erupt at women-of-the-wall prayer service," read the main headline of a prominent newspaper on Friday last week. According to some...
Polls Says Nearly Half of Israelis Support ‘Women of the Wall’
Nearly half of Israelis, 48 percent, support of the group known as Women of the Wall's right to hold traditional Jewish prayer services at the...
Clashes Break Out as Women of the Wall Hold Monthly Prayer Service
JTA - Haredi Orthodox youth mobbed the Western Wall plaza by the thousands to protest Women of the Wall as they held their monthly...
Lapid Backs Women of the Wall
Jerusalem Post - Finance Minister and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid has issued public backing for the Women of the Wall group, it emerged...
“Women of the Wall”: As if we Don’t Have Enough Problems Already
A group called "Women of the Wall" is in the news again. For some time now they have been demanding the "right" to conduct feminist...
Western Wall Egalitarian Prayer Section Proposed by Jewish Agency’s Sharansky
At the Western Wall, a new plan has emerged for the creation of an egalitarian prayer section in a bid to end a longtime dispute...
