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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 492

Lesley Sachs

Women of the Wall campaign posters encouraging girls to celebrate their bat mitzvah posted on public transportation buses in Jerusalem. October 12, 2014 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 21, 2014, 4:46 pm
Jerusalem bus ads featuring girls in prayer shawls vandalized
Women of the Wall campaign aims to encourage young women to celebrate bat mitzvah at the Western Wall
By JTA
Two members of Women of the Wall lead the Rosh Hodesh prayer service (Debra Kamin/Times of Israel)
August 7, 2013, 1:00 pm
Facing jeers and whistles, Women of Wall forced to back of Kotel plaza
Some 300 supporters of feminist prayer group hold Rosh Hodesh service in the back of the Western Wall plaza after police rule site is overcrowded
By Debra Kamin
Women of the Wall at the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem on July 8, 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 8, 2013, 10:14 am
Women of the Wall denied access to Kotel
Thousands of young seminary girls crowd women’s section, prompting police to prevent entry of prayer activists
By Gavriel Fiske
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
Members of Women of the Wall gather at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Friday, May 10. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel staff)
June 7, 2013, 12:51 am
Youth arrested for asking if shooting at Women of the Wall is kosher
Yeshiva student made the inquiry on a website; Women of the Wall intend to read from Torah at next service Sunday
By Lazar Berman and JTA
Women of the Women of the Wall organization wear prayer shawls as they pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, April 11, 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 11, 2013, 2:29 pm
Court frees female activists, calls Western Wall arrests groundless
Judge rejects police request to bar the female worshipers from Western Wall for three months; Wall rabbi says the Women of the Wall ‘fueling hatred’
By Ron Friedman and Gavriel Fiske
Women of the Wall director Lesley Sachs is detained by police for wearing a prayer shawl at the Western Wall April 11 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 11, 2013, 8:27 am
Five female worshipers detained at Western Wall
‘Israel is the only place in the world where Jewish women are arrested for praying,’ MK complains; Netanyahu weighing proposal for egalitarian section at holy site
By Ron Friedman and Gavriel Fiske
Lesley Sachs, director of 'Women of the Wall,' is confronted by police for wearing a 'tallit' (prayer shawl) at the Western Wall last October (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
April 10, 2013, 1:46 pm
Sharansky’s new Western Wall prayer area ‘could take years to implement’
Netanyahu said weighing idea of egalitarian section at holy site, but Women of the Wall director fears plan might never come to fruition, urges MKs to change current regulations
By Gavriel Fiske and ToI Staff
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)
February 11, 2013, 4:46 pm
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
Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 8, 2013, 2:30 pm
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
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)
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
A woman arrested for wearing a prayer shawl at the Western Wall on Thursday (photo credit: courtesy Woman of the Wall)
November 15, 2012, 12:10 pm
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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