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President Isaac Herzog speaks at the opening event of the 39th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, October 28, 2025 (courtesy)
October 29, 2025, 4:30 pm
World Zionist Congress leaders preach unity as delegates spar over Jewish future
Opening night of the ‘parliament of the Jewish people’ is filled with festivities even as debate flares between right and left, secular and religious, over where critical funding will go
By Zev Stub
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl speaks during a Hanukkah reception with US President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House in Washington, December 11, 2023. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP)
March 22, 2024, 1:03 am
Top US rabbi says Gaza’s plight, distrust of PM make Israel-support harder for US Jews
Heartfelt comments by Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl of Central Synagogue NYC at a Jewish peoplehood conference trigger criticism amid concerns for inter-communal and bilateral ties
By Canaan Lidor
Delegates to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, April 20, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot)
May 24, 2023, 9:22 pm
World Zionist Congress passes resolutions opposing Netanyahu government moves
Online vote for measures against plans to limit Law of Return, overhaul judiciary and revoke conversions held month after proposals were blocked by procedural maneuver
By Canaan Lidor
Seth Mann, left, reads from a Torah scroll during his bar mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall's egalitarian section on June 30, 2022. (Courtesy/Mann family)
July 18, 2022, 10:02 pm
Lapid phones American boy whose Western Wall bar mitzvah was overrun by zealots
PM tells Seth Mann that the violent protests against his ceremony were ‘outrageous’ and didn’t represent Israel; family says they were encouraged by the premier’s call
By Judah Ari Gross
A view from the entrance of the Robinson's Arch prayer platforms, April 2018. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/ToI)
June 13, 2022, 6:18 pm
Reform, Conservative leaders grumble over government inaction on Western Wall deal
Heads of non-Orthodox movements meet with cabinet secretary for update, after PM promised to improve egalitarian prayer space
By Judah Ari Gross
Women of the Wall leader Anat Hoffman and URJ president Rabbi Rick Jacobs hold Torah scrolls at the Western Wall complex on March 4, 2022. (Rick Jacobs/Twitter)
March 27, 2022, 5:19 pm
Coalition whip rejects Western Wall deal, says site needs its ‘Orthodox character’
MK Idit Silman’s remarks against compromise that would grant progressive movements greater representation at the Kotel spark criticism from Reform, Conservative Jews
By Judah Ari Gross
Representatives of the Reform and Conservative movements of Judaism from North America and Israel stand outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem before a meeting on February 28, 2022. (Reform Movement in Israel)
February 28, 2022, 5:23 pm
PM meets Reform, Conservative leaders after 6-year hiatus under Netanyahu
Bennett vows to improve conditions at Western Wall prayer space; MK Alon Tal, who attended sit-down, says he’s optimistic about improving ties between Israel and progressive Jews
By Judah Ari Gross
Far-right Orthodox Jews disrupted prayers being conducted by the Conservative Movement at the pluralistic prayer plaza at the Western Wall, on July 17, 2021. (Screenshot/Twitter)
July 18, 2021, 5:49 pm
President, FM pan Orthodox storming of egalitarian plaza during Tisha B’Av eve
Herzog says he is saddened to hear of disruption of Tisha B’Av prayer service held by Conservative Movement; Lapid: Extremists ‘desecrated’ holy day
By Emanuel Fabian and Jacob Magid
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
Orthodox Jews try to prevent a group of American Conservative and Reform rabbis, and the Women of the Wall movement members, from bringing Torah scrolls into the Western Wall compound, during a protest march against the government’s failure to deliver a new prayer space, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, November 2, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 24, 2018, 10:36 pm
Jewish Agency urges police to protect non-Orthodox Jews at Western Wall
In letter to attorney general and acting police chief, Isaac Herzog demands investigation into threats against Conservative movement head
By Sam Sokol
Tourism Minister Yariv Levin speaks at the 15th annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group, on February 12, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 24, 2018, 1:19 pm
Conservative Movement leader blasts PM’s immigration minister appointee
Yizhar Hess says nomination of Yariv Levin — a public critic of Reform Judaism — is a demonstration of ‘utter contempt’ for Diaspora Jewry
By ToI Staff
Yizhar Hess, Executive Director and CEO of the Conservative Judaism movement in Israel seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, August 31, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 11, 2018, 9:25 pm
Conservative Movement leader gets death threats at Western Wall
Yizhar Hess files complaint with police after ultra-Orthodox men tell him he should be murdered for supporting Women of the Wall
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Richard Sandler, chairman of the Jewish Federation of North America in Tel Aviv, on October 24, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
October 24, 2018, 5:47 pm
Liberal Jewish leaders sound skeptical note on PM’s Western Wall promises
Head of Conservative movement in Israel says Netanyahu’s past words haven’t been ‘translated into reality,’ while Reform counterpart calls speech to Diaspora Jews ‘scandalous’
By ToI Staff
Segregated-gender Orthodox prayer in the Robinson's Arch pluralistic prayer platform at the Western Wall, July 13, 2018. (Courtesy)
July 19, 2018, 3:22 pm
Western Wall egalitarian area used daily for gender-segregated Orthodox prayer
Students from two Old City yeshivas bring in temporary ‘mehitza’ dividers for Orthodox crowds of up to 100 at site set aside for pluralistic prayer
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Illustrative: A Jewish couple getting married. (Justin Oberman/Creative Commons)
May 10, 2018, 6:10 am
To ‘unchain’ Jewish women, rabbinate could extend reach across borders
Amid heavy criticism, Knesset debates bill to grant Israel’s rabbinical courts oversight of Jewish divorce cases, including for those wed in civil unions
By Marissa Newman
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