Egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wall

Western Wall compromise: Israel's High Court to hold hearing

This is the first hearing taking place on the issue in the past two years and the first during this government. 

Members of the Women of the Wall, Conservative and Reform Movement  hold Rosh Hodesh prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, March 4, 2022.
 MK Gilad Kariv holds a Torah Scroll during Rosh Hodesh prayer of women of the wall, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, February 22, 2023.

Reform rabbis hold prayers at Kotel, Noam Party activists protest in egal section

The Western Wall.

What’s behind the exaggerated proposed Kotel legislation?

 US AMBASSADOR Thomas Nides arrives at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem on December 5, 2021, to present his credentials.

Nides lights candles at egalitarian Kotel; Gantz heckled at main site


Letters to the Editor December 12, 2022: Represent all the people

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

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UTJ demands ‘deterrence’ of egalitarian prayer at Western Wall – report

Party will demand to enact ‘serious steps’ to deter people who ‘desecrate the holy place’ by not acting according to the rabbinate and the Kotel rabbi.

 Likud party chairman MK Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands with United Torah Judaism MK Yitzchak Goldknopf a plenum session in the assembly hall of the parliament (Knesset) on November 21, 2022.

Original Women of the Wall: Fighting for women to pray at the Kotel

While some consider women’s group prayer proscribed in Jewish law, Original Women of the Wall demonstrates that with respect and tolerance, all Jewish women can practice according to their custom.

 Women of the Wall celebrate after regrouping at the Egalitarian Section of the Western Wall in 2019.

5 ways Itamar Ben-Gvir hopes to change Jewish life in Israel

What exactly does Itamar Ben-Gvir have planned for Israel according to his view of Judaism? Here are five of the core goals that he hopes to achieve.

 The Otzma Yehudit faction, led by MK Itamar Ben-Gvir (center), is seen walking into the President's Residence for a meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, in Jerusalem, on November 10, 2022.

Israel must stop Western Wall violence that desecrates God's name

Israeli leaders need to decide what kind of country they want to be – a Jewish state that respects all streams of Judaism, or one that tolerates behavior that constitutes a desecration of God’s name.

 Seth Mann reads from a Torah scroll during his bar mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall’s egalitarian section on June 30, 2022.

Australian Jewish community joins the demand from Lapid to secure Kotel

"The Government must ensure that police protection is provided to ensure freedom of worship at the Kotel."

 Prime Minister Yair Lapid gives first cabinet meeting address

Israel's gov't to preserve Western Wall's Orthodox character - Silman

Coalition Chairwoman Idit Silman: "Yes, there is a minority [of support for the compromise] and it is our role to make sure that its voice isn't strong and significant and that it does not prevail."

 THE MASSES pray at the Western Wall during Sukkot.

When wearing a kippah in Jerusalem is dangerous - opinion

This is Jerusalem, my hometown, where you should be safe wearing whatever head covering you desire.

 HAREDIM SCUFFLE with police at the Kotel, in protest of Women of the Wall’s Rosh Hodesh prayer service, March 4.

The Western Wall must be for all Jews

Today, after many years of struggle, there is a space for egalitarian prayer at the Kotel, but it is separate and unequal.

 An American family celebrates a bar mitzvah at Robinson's Arch, where egalitarian prayers take place at the Western Wall.

Orthodox Jewish umbrella org. opposes conversion reform, Kotel deal

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett listened attentively to the words of the representatives of the organizations and agreed to continue the dialogue on the various issues.

 Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is seen meeting with the Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization Am Echad, on February 23, 2022.

Orthodox politicians celebrate Bennett decision to stop Kotel deal

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said he did not advance the Kotel plan due to opposition to it within the Yamina faction.

 PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett holds a press conference at the Prime Minister’s office earlier this year.