Tag: Kotel Rabbi
200 WOW Drowned Out by 10,000 Seminary Girls
No one was really hurt, and that's what really counts. Eat your heart out, Pew Institute, down here we're all Orthodox Jews…
Rabbi Stav Attacked by Haredi Youths at a Wedding
A few boys began to push him, trying to make him trip and fall while he was dancing.
How I Lost My Liberal View of Reform Jews and Started to Fear Them
When I began covering the Women of the Wall, the flagship of the Reform insurgency in Israel, my initial take was sympathetic.
Western Wall Rabbi ‘Can Live’ with Non-Orthodox Kotel Site
The rabbi of the Western Wall said he "can live with" a plan presented by Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky for a permanent prayer...
Sharansky to Suggest Women’s Kotel Prayers Away from Main Plaza
Sharansky says the Western Wall is long enough for women to have their own minyan and Torah reading. The Women of the Wall leader accepts the compromise. Will the Rabbinate big enough to agree?
Kotel Rabbi Promises Women Won’t Be Arrested for Saying ’Kaddish’
Israel’s Haredi rabbis continue to make a mockery of themselves and of Judaism by pressing to arrest women for saying the mourner’s prayer at the Kotel. Sharansky comes to the rescue.