Anat Hoffman, a Reform Jew who is head of the controversial Women of the Wall group, spoke to the media Friday after members of her group held public prayers at the Kotel (Western Wall). “We are ...

A dramatic offer to set up a new egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wall in Jerusalem was met with a no less dramatic willingness to compromise on behalf of all the major religious leaders in ...

Six months ago, a few days before I left New Jersey for a sabbatical in Israel, I said goodbye to a beloved teacher and friend of mine, who is Orthodox. Having lived in Israel for an extended period, ...

While the negotiations continue, it said, Women of the Wall “continues to pray each month in the women’ section of the Kotel. We will continue to do so until such a time that plans for the third ...

When the Israeli cabinet approved a proposal intended to resolve a festering conflict between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews at the Western Wall, no one seemed to notice the parallels between this ...

Close your eyes and imagine: you are being yelled at by a large group of people. Cups of coffee and lit cigarettes are thrown at you. All you were doing was trying to pray. Unpleasant, no? Now imagine ...

Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of the Kotel and the Holy Places, on Thursday called on the Israeli public to “condemn and remove from their midst” the Women of the Wall group, whom he said had but one ...

Bonna Devora Haberman is one of the co-founders of Women of the Wall. Since receiving her Phd in Ethics and Education from the University of London, Dr. Haberman has published widely and taught at the ...

Looking back at the past five-and – a half years of my life in Israel, a significant part of it has been invested in the fight for my religious rights at the Kotel. It seemed that we had won a ...

“Revolution for Women and Jewish Pluralism in Israel,” declared on Sunday the Women of the Wall Facebook page, announcing that the Israeli government has approved the “Mendelblit Plan for a third, ...

Several hundred members of the Women of the Wall feminist prayer group were blocked from entering the women’s section of the Western Wall on Monday morning, with police saying the move was due to ...

Robinson’s Arch, the only area of the Western Wall that is government-approved for prayer without a mechitzah, will take center stage Friday evening (May 10) when it serves as the site for what is ...