Leah Aharoni

Leah Aharoni is the co-founder of Women for the Wall, a grassroots organization dedicated to preserving the tradition at the Western Wall in the spirit of Jewish unity.

 INTERIOR MINISTER Moshe Arbel arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.

Would Ruth, a convert, be good enough for Israeli citizenship? - opinion

 PROTESTERS DRESS as characters from ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ to show their opposition to the government’s planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, earlier this month.

The discourse putting the High Court as womens' savior is a lie - opinion

 A JERUSALEM MUNICIPALITY worker hangs an American flag in Jerusalem, on Sunday in preparation for the upcoming visit of President Joe Biden. Let’s see America forever stand by allies like Israel, says the writer.

Keep toxic US politics away from Israel - opinion


When the Law of Return becomes an impediment to Aliyah -opinion

In just a generation or two, we may find ourselves with a Diaspora in which for every Jew there are two to three non-Jews eligible for and interested in acquiring Israeli citizenship.

 FLYERS ARE distributed in mailboxes in the Nahlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem, as part of an awareness campaign in the ultra-Orthodox community

We can’t abandon the Jews of Russia -opinion

Unless we wake up and do everything in our power to assist Russian Jews out of the trap, tens of thousands may find themselves once again behind the Iron Curtain.

 FINANCE MINISTER Avigdor Liberman attends a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, last Sunday. We would expect Liberman, who was elected on the votes of Russian-speaking immigrants, to allocate the necessary resources for an emergency rescue effort, says the writer

The writing was on the wall about violence at the Kotel - opinion

This past Rosh Hodesh, a group of rowdy and misled teens, who came to protest the monthly Women of the Wall event, blew up a bar mitzvah celebration.

 ANAT HOFFMAN holds a Torah scroll at a Western Wall prayer service on the occasion of Rosh Hodesh. The very people who have turned the Kotel into a battleground are now crying foul, says the writer.

As Israel faces elections, I think of Ukraine - opinion

Israelis of different persuasions and beliefs cannot let themselves be turned into enemies. Instead, we need to reclaim our 3,000-year-old heritage of brotherly love, of treating each other as family.

 A VOLUNTEER assists Ukrainian Jewish refugees at a Vaad Hatzalah-sponsored facility in Moldova.

Don’t cherish Jewish values? You don’t get to make the call - opinion

Liberals often completely overlook three issues that make up 'the moral matrix' – loyalty, authority and sanctity.

Worshipers pray at the Western Wall.

MK Gilad Kariv, stop pushing your Kotel agenda - opinion

No matter how many times Women of the Wall flout their feminist agenda, this group of 30-40 women is nothing but a front for the political aspirations of the Israeli Reform movement.

 Rabbi Gilad Kariv at the Western Wall, Jerusalem, August 9, 2021.

Why we should do everything to save 2-year-old Alta Fixsler - comment

The two-year-old British girl, whose parents are Israelis and Hassidic Jews, was born with a severe brain injury. Her hospital wants to remove life-support, against her parents' wishes.

Abraham Fixler asks that his daughter be sent to Israel before she her life support is turned off, in Manchester, Britain.

WZO vice chair shouldn't criticize NIS 20m. for Kotel egal prayer area

The Jewish people have been voting with their collective feet, consistently coming to pray at the original Western Wall plaza and upholding the 1,500-year-old prayer tradition.

A MAN walks away from the Western Wall earlier this month.

Women of the Wall – your sisters invite you to dialogue – opinion

The stones of the Kotel have born witness to cultures rising and falling, as authentic Judaism has endured.

WOMEN PRAY at the Western Wall Tunnels.

Where is the respect at the Kotel?

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