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Women of the Wall
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
US Vice President Mike Pence visits Jerusalem's Western Wall on January 23, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Thomas COEX)
January 28, 2018, 7:29 am
Pence’s Kotel visit insulted women everywhere
The Vice President's compliance with ultra-Orthodox gender discrimination at the holy site was disgraceful
By Hara Person
Female reporters covering Mike Pence’s visit to the Western Wall on January 23, 2018. Tal Schneider is at left. (Michael Lipin/Twitter, via JTA)
January 25, 2018, 12:21 pm
Perpetual #PenceFence
For Women of the Wall, the discrimination against female journalists at the Kotel plaza was just more of the same
By Lesley Sachs
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 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)
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
Members of the Reform movement and the Hebrew Union College confront ultra-Orthodox protesters and security guards while trying to enter the Western Wall plaza, in Jerusalem's Old City, November 16, 2017. (Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90)
November 27, 2017, 5:34 pm
Conservative Jews skewer PM for ‘alternative truth’ about Western Wall deal
'Shame on you, prime minister' says a new video clip, which shows Benjamin Netanyahu enthusing about the unity of the Jewish people
By Sue Surkes
Orthodox Jewish men blow whistles as they try to disturb the monthly prayer service of the Women of the Wall at the Western Wall, August 7, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 13, 2017, 6:51 pm
Court demands answers on failure to protect Women of the Wall
Police, Western Wall rabbi and Western Wall Heritage Foundation have 30 days to explain why they don't remove violent protesters
By Tamar Pileggi
Women of the Wall pray with a Torah scroll at their monthly prayer session, October 20, 2017. (Hila Shiloni)
October 20, 2017, 2:40 pm
Six Day War vets, Women of the Wall scuffle with guards at Western Wall
Pluralistic activists say ex-paratrooper 'wrestled to the ground' with Torah scroll at entrance; security later allows Torah reading near gate
By TOI staff
Reform female and male rabbis pray together at Robinson's Arch, the Western Wall site slated for future egalitarian services, on Thursday, February 25, 2016. (Y.R/Reform Movement)
September 19, 2017, 6:33 pm
In response to court, state shuts door on Western Wall deal
Asked to rethink freeze on implementing 2016 compromise agreement, and whether it could be forced to implement the plan it agreed to, government answers with a no and a no
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Reform female and male rabbis pray together at Robinson's Arch, the Western Wall site slated for future egalitarian services, on Thursday, February 25, 2016. (Y.R/Reform Movement)
September 1, 2017, 2:27 pm
With muddled decision on Western Wall freeze, court appears wary to intervene
Bizarre High Court stance with no teeth asks the state whether the court can legally enforce the pluralistic pavilion plan; leaves petitioners 'with a lot of questions'
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Conservative Jews pray at the temporary egalitarian Robinson's Arch prayer pavilion at the southern end of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on July 30, 2014. (Robert Swift/Flash90)
August 31, 2017, 6:32 am
Could a 1924 British Mandate law kill the Western Wall pluralistic pavilion?
A long-awaited High Court hearing will assemble petitioners on both sides of a frozen government decision to stake their claims at Judaism's holiest site
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Members of the Women of the Wall group praying outside the entrance to the Western Wall after they were denied entry to the site for refusing to undergo body searches, despite a recent Supreme Court ruling outlawing the searches. January 19, 2017. (Courtesy of Women of the Wall)
August 25, 2017, 4:40 pm
Netanyahu slams ‘unacceptable’ Western Wall body searches
PM instructs police minister to look into accusations 4 female rabbinical students were asked to lift shirts, skirts when entering holy site
By JTA
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
Women of the Wall head Anat Hoffman (holding Torah scroll) at the Western Wall, July 24, 2017. (Hila Shiloni)
August 24, 2017, 1:11 pm
Strip-searching WoW — really?!
This effort to prevent the Women of the Wall from bringing a Torah to the Kotel subverts the Torah's value of justice
By Micah Streiffer
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
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