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Wailing Wall

Andrew Silow-Carroll
May 24, 2017, 12:11 pm
Andrew Silow-Carroll
Tel Aviv, ‘home of Judaism?’
Rex Tillerson sparked scorn by naming the wrong city, but where does Judaism really live?
Francine M. Gordon
April 13, 2016, 3:10 pm
Francine M. Gordon
The fate of the Great Kotel Compromise
World Jewry may soon feel at home at the Western Wall…if Netanyahu doesn’t pander to his Haredi coalition members
Palestinian Authority Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud al-Habash (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
February 10, 2014, 9:55 pm
PA minister: Western Wall must be under our rule
Mahmoud al-Habash says ‘every inch’ of land captured by Israel in 1967 must be part of sovereign Palestine, including ‘Buraq’ wall
By Itamar Sharon
Shulamit S. Magnus
October 26, 2013, 9:20 pm
Shulamit S. Magnus
Mandate the Kotel as a neutral space
Allocating a separate prayer plaza at the Wall is a victory for haredim and a defeat for Israel’s founding principles
Praying, fasting and mourning the Temple's destruction on the Ninth of Av, Tisha B'Av. (Leeor Bronis/Times of Israel)
July 16, 2013, 10:54 am
Thousands gather at Western Wall for annual fast
Jews in Israel and around the world mourn the destruction of Jerusalem and other calamities
By Nicole Levin and Leeor Bronis
Shulamit S. Magnus
April 17, 2013, 12:14 pm
Shulamit S. Magnus
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
Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi
April 12, 2013, 6:00 pm
Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi
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
Sarah Shapiro
December 31, 2012, 1:04 pm
Sarah Shapiro
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Jerusalem
We danced and danced and danced, men on one side, women on the other
Timati's Jerusalem Instagram (Courtesy Timati Twitter)
October 10, 2012, 10:08 pm
Timati takes FTV to TLV and JLM
Voice of ‘Welcome to Saint Tropez’ parties in Tel Aviv, gets serious at the Wall
By Jessica Steinberg
Mordechai Gur (seated, with black curly hair) and his troops survey the Old City before launching their attack in the 1967 Six Day War (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA/Mazel123)
May 20, 2012, 7:13 am
‘Be ready to break into the Old City’
The fateful June 5, 1967, order to paratroop commander Mordechai Gur ‘just slipped out,’ author Abraham Rabinovich recalls in this excerpt from his landmark book, ‘The Battle for Jerusalem’
By Abraham Rabinovich
After removal, the thousands of notes are buried on the nearby Mount of Olives. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
March 28, 2012, 7:11 pm
Purging prayers from the Wall
Passover approaches and the Wailing Wall’s wish list gets reset
By Ilan Ben Zion
Conflict made visible: Orthodox men shouting at Conservative women who came to pray at the Western Wall (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
From the WebFebruary 14, 2012, 1:44 am
A tale of two Jewish peoples
‘The practices and policies of the Jewish state turn me and my children into second class Jews,’ an American Conservative Jew says to Yedioth Ahronoth
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