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Rosh Hodesh

Reform rabbis and supporters of Women of the Wall march to the Western Wall with a sign protesting a bill that would criminalize women wearing prayer shawls at the holy site, on February 22, 2023. (Central Conference of American Rabbis)
February 22, 2023, 11:28 am
Reform rabbis assailed as they try to bring Torah scrolls to women at Western Wall
Members of the Noam party’s youth movement overrun holy site’s egalitarian section, are escorted out by police
By Judah Ari Gross
Labor MK and Reform Rabbi Gilad Kariv holds up a Torah scroll in the women's section of the Western Wall on December 25, 2022. (Hila Shiloni/Women of the Wall)
December 25, 2022, 11:32 am
Reform rabbi MK brings Torah scroll to women’s section of Western Wall, drawing ire
Labor lawmaker Kariv defends his move, which comes as ultra-Orthodox parties seek to outlaw female-led services at the Jerusalem holy site
By Judah Ari Gross
Female worshipers visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem, August 23, 2017. (Women of the Wall)
August 25, 2017, 12:18 am
Reform leaders urge Netanyahu to decry Women of the Wall body searches
Female rabbinical students were asked to lift their shirts and skirts for security before being allowed to enter Western Wall plaza for progressive prayer service
By JTA
Members of Women of the Wall hold up a Torah scroll during a prayer service marking the first day of the Jewish month of Elul, on August 23, 2017, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)
August 23, 2017, 2:59 pm
Outcry as women asked to lift skirts, shirts at entrance to Western Wall
Liberal Jewish groups say 4 female rabbinical students were intimidated, humiliated ahead of Women of the Wall prayer service
By Alexander Fulbright
Devora Leff, Sasha Lutt and Ashira Abramowitz-Silverman in front of Women of the Wall's Egged bus ad (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash 90)
October 13, 2014, 7:05 pm
Women of the Wall take to the buses
The feminist organization launches an ad campaign featuring bat mitzvah girls with prayer shawls
By Jessica Steinberg
Eliza Moss-Horwitz, Lucy Sattler and Alexandra Schwartz pray with Women of the Wall. Schwartz (right) holds an empty Torah cover beneath her prayer book, symbolizing the Torah scroll the group was prevented from bringing in to the Kotel plaza, January 2014. (photo credit: Courtesy of Moving Traditions)
January 3, 2014, 12:12 pm
US teen contest winners reflect on praying with WoW
After a largely peaceful prayer service at the Western Wall, teens feel empowered and awed by feminist group’s struggle
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Members of Women of the Wall perform their monthly Rosh Hodesh prayers at the Western Wall, on December 4, 2013. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/FLASH90)
January 1, 2014, 11:08 am
US teens win contest to pray with Women of the Wall
Feminist group Moving Traditions sends trio to celebrate new Hebrew month at Wall and see ‘whole spectrum’ of gender issues in Holy Land
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Women of the Wall praying at the Western Wall Monday. (photo credit: Debra Kamin/Times of Israel staff)
November 4, 2013, 5:49 am
Loud protests as Women of the Wall mark 25th anniversary
Whistles and jeers try to drown out prayer group at Western Wall, but little violence reported, as women mark start of Jewish month of Kislev; hundreds of men stand with group in solidarity
By ToI Staff and JTA
Women of the Wall members wearing prayer shawls pray at the Western Wall (photo credit: Sarah Schuman/Flash90)
October 3, 2013, 7:44 pm
Western Wall rabbi to haredi girls: Avoid plaza for Women of the Wall service
Ahead of monthly prayers on Friday, Shmuel Rabinowitz calls to avoid tensions at Judaism’s holiest site
By JTA
A still from an 'Eretz Nehederet' skit about ultra-Orthodox women protesting Women of the Wall (Courtesy 'Eretz Nehederet' screen grab)
March 19, 2013, 10:04 am
Eretz Nehederet ♥ Women of the Wall
A slight spoof on the women — all the women — at the Kotel
By Jessica Steinberg
MKs Michal Rozin (center with hat), Stav Shaffir (in blue) and Tamar Zandberg with the Women of the Wall, at the Western Wall, on Tuesday March 12, 2013. (photo credit: via Stav Shaffir/Facebook)
March 12, 2013, 9:26 am
Female MKs join Women of the Wall prayer service
Stav Shaffir, Michal Rozin and Tamar Zandberg use parliamentary immunity to wear prayer shawls at the Western Wall
By Gabe Fisher and ToI Staff
Members of the activist group Women of the Wall celebrate the holiday of Purim with a reading of the Scroll of Esther at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem on February 23, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
February 25, 2013, 4:49 pm
Women of the Wall read Megillah undisturbed by police
80 participants take part in holiday celebration at the Western Wall, dressed up as cops, ultra-Orthodox men and a prisoner
By Asher Zeiger
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)
February 11, 2013, 12:31 pm
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
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
Bonna Devora Haberman
October 17, 2012, 6:22 pm
Bonna Devora Haberman
The wailing shawl
We must take steps toward fulfilling the freedom of religious practice and gender equality upon which Israeli civil society is founded
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