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Topic: Western Wall

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February 11, 2013
4:46 pm

Women of the Wall Anat Hoffman (right) and Lesley Sachs (left), with two paratrooper veterans, shortly before the women were arrested near the Western Wall on Monday (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Paratroopers of ’67 protect Women of the Wall ’13

Four veterans of the battle for Jerusalem ensured a monthly female prayer service, complete with prayer shawls, went ahead undisturbed at the Western Wall for the first time in 24 years. Then the former fighters departed, and the women were arrested

By Mitch Ginsburg

February 11, 2013
12:31 pm

Members of the Women of the Wall wear prayer shawls as they pray at the Western Wall on February 11, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

10 women with prayer shawls arrested at Western Wall

US and Canadian citizens among detainees, including Reform rabbi sister of comedienne Sarah Silverman

By Gabe Fisher

February 5, 2013
3:24 am

Reconstructing pillars from the theater and mausoleum at Herodium (photo credit: Andrei Vainer)

Herod gets his 15 minutes

A behind-the-scenes look at the Israel Museum’s massive exhibit, opening Tuesday evening, on the hated Roman monarch who ruled Judea on behalf of Rome

By Jessica Steinberg

January 10, 2013
12:42 pm

High canine spirits in southern Jerusalem (photo credit: Yishai Cohen)

The white album

As the snow piles up in the capital, Jerusalemites head out to enjoy their frosted flakes before the city turns into a slushy mess

By Times of Israel staff

January 8, 2013
2:30 pm

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

With Western Wall unity crumbling, a refusenik hopes to meld women’s rights and tradition

Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky is drafted to find solution for women who want to pray at wall without restrictions

By Ben Sales

December 31, 2012
5:35 am

An Israeli member of the Women of the Wall organization prays just outside the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

US Jewish groups hail Netanyahu’s initiative to make women more welcome at Western Wall

‘The Wall cannot continue to be the purview of only one religious perspective,’ says National Council of Jewish Women CEO

December 28, 2012
4:49 am

Fight for women’s equality at the Western Wall fails to move secular Israelis

Although Netanyahu has requested to review policies at holy site, prayer restrictions rank near the bottom of a long list of church-state issues

December 26, 2012
4:55 pm

Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to the Western Wall in 2006 (photo credit: Guy Assayag/Flash90)

Netanyahu seeks solution for restrictions on women’s prayer at Western Wall

Holy site ‘must remain a source of Jewish unity rather than division,’ PM tells Jewish Agency chair

December 19, 2012
7:51 pm

Jewish worshippers pray at Jerusalem's Western Wall (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

$507 million found at Western Wall

Rabbi says similar checks all bounced in the past

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 15, 2012
8:53 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lights Hanukkah candles in the Old City on Saturday, the last night of the festival (photo credit: Channel 2 screenshot)

‘The Western Wall and the State of Israel will be ours forever,’ says Netanyahu

Lighting eighth candle of Hanukkah in Jerusalem, prime minister responds to Palestinian claims that Kotel is ‘occupied territory’

By Yifa Yaakov and Aaron Kalman

December 15, 2012
7:39 am

An Israeli member of the Women of the Wall organization prays just outside the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on Friday (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

To pray like men

Women of the Wall endure taunts, arrests and even plastic chairs thrown at them by angry worshippers, all to worship as they wish at Judaism’s holiest site

By Tia Goldenberg

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

December 2, 2012
10:24 pm

Alanis Morissette visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Alanis Morissette lands in Israel

Canadian chanteuse set to perform her first gig in Israel since 2000

By Philip Podolsky

November 15, 2012
12:10 pm

A woman arrested for wearing a prayer shawl at the Western Wall on Thursday (photo credit: courtesy Woman of the Wall)

Women arrested at Western Wall while ‘praying for peace in the south’

Six worshipers held by police for wearing prayer shawls during services for the new month

By Aaron Kalman

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