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Take Back the Kotel Part II: Give Us Robinson’s Arch! We’ve talked about problems at the Kotel before, and the incident of a woman putting a tallit on and ...
Regarding “Jailed For Davening” (A N.Y. Minute, Feb. 22): The desire of women and members of non-Orthodox communities to engage in prayer at the Kotel [Western Wall] is complex.
In an op-ed published in last Thursday’s Jerusalem Post, the Kotel administrator Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz penned a letter to Women of the Wall asking that we, and the National Religious, just ...
Another Perspective on the Kotel Aug 29, 2017, 9:36 AM Edit; Facebook; Twitter; ... “Because it’s provocative,” he explained. “No it isn’t,” I protested. “It’s davening.
I have been spat and yelled at (and worse) while davening at the Kotel. I stand behind the efforts to bring egalitarian services there. I am a supporter ...
Greatly improving our davening over- night is probably not going to happen. But that isn't even expected of us. Phil Chernofsky Nov 10, 2017, 4:26 PM (GMT+2) Torah Tidbits Audio.
08:00 Monday 13th Av: A coach takes our recently-awakened Barmitzvah party from Ramat Rachel, the kibbutz hotel at the high southern edge of Jerusalem, to the Kotel Ha’Maravi in the Old City.
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 ...
When I woke to the news about the new policy for the Kotel, I was surprised to see so many of my friends celebrating. I suppose I should be, too: I’ve been wearing tefillin since I was bat ...
When I arrived at the Kotel a little past 7 a.m., there were about 25 (not 2,000 as reported by Haaretz) young haredi men standing on the upper level at the far north of the Kotel Plaza shouting ...
Four women were taken into custody by the police on August 19 (Rosh Hodesh Elul) for wearing a tallit (ritual fringes) at the Western Wall, making Israel the only country in the world where ...
When the Kotel was returned to us in 1967, we heard Hashem’s call to reconnect with Him. The state founded 19 years earlier took on new meaning.