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Topic: Kotel

June 9, 2013
4:36 pm

WATCH: Women of the Wall pray largely unimpeded

Police section off a ‘safe zone’ in the women’s area of the Wall in effort to avoid violence seen at last month’s service

By Ricky Ben-David

June 6, 2013
11:07 pm

The Western Wall. (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

The Wall that must not divide us

A multi-denominational group of Los Angeles rabbis hails the Sharansky Kotel plan as embodying respect, inclusion and tolerance

May 19, 2013
3:13 pm

A battle for the soul of Judaism

The ultra-Orthodox are fighting for control of the Kotel as their power in the wider national arena continues to fade

By Naomi Schacter

May 12, 2013
10:01 am

Members of Women of the Wall gather at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Friday (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel staff)

At the Kotel I lost the love of my life

A young Orthodox man went to the Wall on Friday seeking joy and song and instead found obscenity

By Jordan Soffer

April 17, 2013
12:14 pm

Lesley Sachs, director of "Women of the Wall" has been detained and arrested for wearing a tallit at the Western Wall (photo: Miriam Alster / Flash 90)

Heart of Stone: Liberating the Wall for us too

Women will keep praying at the supreme site of Jewish longing and demanding that the Kotel be liberated for them too

By Shulamit Magnus

April 12, 2013
6:00 pm

Jewish destiny and the Women of the Wall

Deciding how Israel relates to women, non-Orthodox Judaism and the Diaspora will determine the fate of Jewish Peoplehood

By Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi

February 19, 2013
5:25 pm

The other women of the Wall

The women who pray inside the Kotel Tunnels, out of the limelight, are truly sharing a secret with God

By Leah Aharoni

February 14, 2013
5:18 pm

An affront to women, tradition and Jews worldwide

Barring the Women of the Wall is an outrageous insult and it’s also unwise

By Tzvi Graetz

February 13, 2013
2:15 am

The Righting on the Wall

Curtailing religious practices that impose on others is not a violation of religious rights

By Josh Yuter

February 11, 2013
4:44 pm

The crime of wearing a tallit

After this morning, the Women of the Wall have my respect and my support. Religious freedom must be a priority for Israel.

By Jason Miller

December 31, 2012
1:04 pm

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Jerusalem

We danced and danced and danced, men on one side, women on the other

By Sarah Shapiro

December 19, 2012
5:49 pm

Women of the Wall at the police station in October (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli Judaism – under arrest

There is no ‘Rabbi of the Western Wall’ and there is not one ‘local custom’ at the Kotel

By Bonna Devora Haberman

December 10, 2012
11:41 pm

An urgent need for pro-Israel unity

Do the B’nai Jeshurun rabbis intend to pray at the Kotel next time they visit Israel?

By Alan Dershowitz

November 14, 2012
9:33 pm

Rabbi Rick Jacobs (photo credit: Ben Fink Shapiro/Union for Reform Judaism)

Reform leader Rick Jacobs slams Israeli discrimination against non-Orthodox

US Jews applaud speech calling for pluralism, right of women to lead prayers at Western Wall

March 28, 2012
7:11 pm

After removal, the thousands of notes are buried on the nearby Mount of Olives. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Purging prayers from the Wall

Passover approaches and the Wailing Wall’s wish list gets reset

By Ilan Ben Zion