Posts Tagged: Western Wall prayer
Tens of Thousands View Prayer Online at Western Wall to End Coronavirus
JNS.org - A total of 50,000 people watched a prayer service online that took place at the Western Wall on Wednesday evening (29 Adar on the...
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...
Why Netanyahu Did It: The Brutal Truth on Israel and the Diaspora
JNS.org - Non-Orthodox Jews are angry about the Israeli government’s decision to go back on its word, and reject the idea of a new egalitarian prayer...
Coalition Politics Are Threatening the Jewish State
The Israeli government's decision to cave to ultra-Orthodox pressure and suspend its 2016 policy allowing egalitarian Jewish prayers at a separate section of the Western Wall is...
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),...
Islamic Authority Opposes New Prayer Area at Western Wall for Non-Orthodox Jews
The Islamic authority that oversees a sensitive Jerusalem holy site says it opposes a new prayer area for non-Orthodox Jews at the adjacent Western Wall. The...
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 to Allow Non-Orthodox, Mixed Men-Women Prayer at Western Wall
JNS.org - In a historic decision on Sunday, the Israeli cabinet voted to allow non-Orthodox Jewish prayer in an area especially designated for the purpose at the...
Attempts to Claim the Western Wall as Muslim Holy Site Are Absurd
If there is one thing that we were all pretty certain of a week ago, it was that the Kotel is universally regarded as a...
