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A Women of the Wall member helps a woman lay tefillin at Tel Aviv's Savidor train terminal, February 17, 2020. (Courtesy Women of the Wall)
February 17, 2020, 3:22 pm
Hardline transportation minister scrambles after embrace from women’s group
Women of the Wall praises Bezalel Smotrich for ‘warm welcome’ of train terminal tefillin stand for women, prompting far-right criticism of him
By TOI staff
Women of the Wall at the Western Wall on August 2, 2019 (Courtesy Women of the Wall)
August 2, 2019, 4:46 pm
Protesters, worshippers skirmish at Western Wall during female-led service
Head of Conservative movement says he was accosted by ultra-Orthodox, had his kippa and prayer shall trampled on
By TOI staff
Members of the Women of the Wall movement hold monthly prayers as thousands of ultra-Orthodox women protest against them at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, March 8, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 8, 2019, 7:12 pm
Israel pushes back on US report spotlighting religious freedom woes
Foreign Ministry official admits Washington ‘doesn’t always get it completely right,’ concedes ‘challenges’ with Jewish denominations, ‘significant hiccups’ vis-a-vis Christians
By Marissa Newman
Members of the Women of the Wall movement hold Rosh Hodesh prayers as thousands of ultra-Orthodox women protest against them at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, March 8, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 10, 2019, 6:42 pm
Women of the Wall accuse police of abandoning them to ‘angry mob’
Friday clashes at Western Wall were ‘the most grave’ ever, and generated ‘concrete fears over human life,’ liberal Jewish group says
By TOI staff
Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 10, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
March 10, 2019, 2:14 pm
Litzman says Women of the Wall ‘need to be kicked out’ of prayer plaza
Ultra-Orthodox lawmaker fails to condemn violence toward members of progressive group during Friday services at Western Wall
By TOI staff
Border Policewomen help members of the Women of the Wall movement leave after attempting to hold monthly prayers as thousands of ultra-Orthodox women protest against them at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, March 8, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 8, 2019, 1:43 pm
Police accuse Women of the Wall members of staging Western Wall ‘provocation’
Authorities say some non-Orthodox worshipers refused to stand in quartered-off area, sparking clashes with ultra-Orthodox protesters; organization says force is ‘brazenly lying’
By TOI staff
Members of the Women of the Wall prayer group hold prayers as thousands of ultra-Orthodox women protest against them at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on March 8, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 8, 2019, 10:54 am
Women of Wall forced to move service amid ‘violent’ ultra-Orthodox protest
Deeming main plaza too dangerous for worshipers after thousands of Haredim disrupt prayers and injure several, progressive group finishes service at egalitarian space
By TOI staff
An Orthodox Jewish woman (left) prays alongside a young Jewish woman wearing tefillin at the Western Wall (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 27, 2019, 4:31 pm
Women of the Wall get approval for women’s tefillin stand in Jerusalem
City authorizes move after months-long battle, but not at requested location, leading rights group to accuse it of discrimination
By Michael Bachner
A prayerbook allegedly burned by ultra-Orthodox protesters opposed to a liberal women's prayer gathering at the Western Wall, July 13, 2018. (Elizabeth Kirshner)
July 13, 2018, 1:31 pm
Ultra-Orthodox protesters allegedly burn Women of the Wall prayerbook
Liberal women’s prayer group’s monthly gathering at Western Wall faces harassment; eggs and cups hurled at worshipers
By TOI staff
Yonatan Gher
May 30, 2018, 3:14 pm
Yonatan Gher
When is freedom of religion hypocrisy?
Had the airport tefillin-wearer been female, she’d have been taken to task for being a ‘provocateur’
New construction of a permanent pluralistic prayer platform in the Davidson Archaeological Park at the Western Wall, February 5, 2018. (The Masorti Movement in Israel)
March 27, 2018, 4:35 pm
PM partially unfreezes Western Wall pluralistic plaza plan, to some dismay
Masorti head backs planned renovation, but Women of the Wall say it’s like ‘keeping women relegated to the back of the bus but reupholstering the seats’
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Hara Person
January 28, 2018, 7:29 am
Hara Person
Pence’s Kotel visit insulted women everywhere
The Vice President’s compliance with ultra-Orthodox gender discrimination at the holy site was disgraceful
Lesley Sachs
January 25, 2018, 12:21 pm
Lesley Sachs
Perpetual #PenceFence
For Women of the Wall, the discrimination against female journalists at the Kotel plaza was just more of the same
Anat Hoffman (r), chairwoman of the "Women of the Wall" organization seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem as she arrives for a hearing regarding the Western Wall deal, on January 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 14, 2018, 8:19 pm
Women of the Wall to court: State’s proposal is humiliating
At hearing, government vows to present new plans for egalitarian prayer site by April; Reform movement slams foot-dragging
By TOI staff
Members of the Reform movement confront police and security guards while trying to enter the public square in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, November 16, 2017. (Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90)
November 29, 2017, 3:27 am
Feeling shunned, young Reform Jews wrestle with loving Israel
With liberal Jews roughed up at Western Wall and at odds with many government policies, their leaders struggle to connect them to a country that doesn’t seem to love them back
By Ben Sales
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