Tag: kotel plaza

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met and supported the leaders of the Reform movement in Israel and the Diaspora.

Unlike American Jews who want their own share in the Kotel when they come to visit, the WOW are not interested in compromises.

What's religious about holding up empty Torah covers by the Kotel? It's a purely political act.

The complex was used by Jerusalem residents during the Early Roman period, before the destruction of the Second Temple in the year 70.

In 2004, Israel's High Court of Justice ruled that every Jew has the right to go up and pray on the Temple Mount.

There's nothing quite like featuring the photo of exactly the wrong Rabbi in your hate campaign.

Of course, this entire drama would have been prevented had there been even a couple of Reform or Conservative Jews to celebrate Chol Ha'Mo'ed at the Kotel.

A representative of the city's legal adviser objected to the move, arguing that it could not be sneaked under the guise of accessibility.

Last Sunday's political surveys, which gave Netanyahu's Likud party a boost to 34 Knesset from it current 30, also showed yet another drop for the Zionist Camp—a coalition of Labor and the Tzipi Livni Movement—from its current 24 to 10 seats.

The Reform movement will not meet Netanyahu before he gives back their share of the Western Wall.

The JPost couldn't help themselves, despite their attempt to come across as the rational side in this debate, when they referred to Amar as the "so-called chief rabbi of Jerusalem."

If Jews had the ability to ignore religious provocation when they saw one, we'd still have the Second Temple, if not the First.

It's difficult to predict whether offended US Jews who discovered there's a limit to their political influence in their second-choice country will be able to keep up the turf war much longer.

Prime Minister Netanyahu suggested that 'the activism of the American Jewry does not always help.'

The deadline for government's response to the high court's order is next Sunday.

Today, the only access road to the Wailing Wall from the Jewish Quarter is the stairway, a drop of about 26 yards.

The state of mind of "I can't do it" is the cause of defeat. That's the root of the destruction, said march organizer Yehudit Katsover.

Watching the video is like watching an attack of zombies yelling "Allahu Akbar".

Here are photos of some of the representatives from the Reform and Conservative Movements during their Protest-Prayer Rally at the Kotel plaza.

The mixed service is now a retaliation against Jerusalem Chief Rabbi's division of the designated mixed-prayer area.

Ari Fuld, standing on the roof of Yeshivat Netivat Aryeh, gives us a top-down view of the Kotel plaza, with tens of thousands of lovers of Jerusalem overflowing the square.

"Today this affects Women of the Wall but tomorrow it will affect every Israeli and Jew around the world…."

Police prepared for the monthly event, and from a law-and-order perspective it made perfect sense.

Public protests of the expansion of the Robinson's Arch area for egalitarian prayer would only generate more enmity.