Tag: Western Wall

Erev Yom Kippur

Selichot at the Kotel.

In the Sephardic tradition, the recital of the Selichot prayers in preparation for the High Holidays begins on the second day of the month of Elul.

Which Wall?

Rabbi Melamed said that if more people wish to pray in a mixed group, “the authorities will increase and expand the Ezrat Israel section for them as needed."

Visitors taking the elevator to the Kotel will be able to see the ancient Jewish ritual bath.

The most sacred place for the Jewish people isn’t Jerusalem or the Western Wall, it’s the Temple Mount.

Netanyahu had a Jerusalem Day message.

The Kotel was packed on Sunday morning for celebratory holiday prayers of Jerusalem Day.

Arab media is going wild over the massive Israeli flag unfurled at the Kotel.

One wonders what else Israel could liberate in the face of the next Arab rage.

The muezzin's loudspeaker is usually on full volume whenever there is a large Jewish event at the Kotel.

"It's exciting, there's nothing else to say, it's very exciting."

In the past, Jewish visitors who dared wave an Israeli flag on the Temple Mount were detained and removed from the holy site for long periods of time.

The recent Hamas-perpetrated riots in and around the Al-Aqsa Mosque were a wake-up call for the Jordanians.

Some photos from the Kotel on Chol Hamoed.

"If the security forces' activity in the blessed al-Aqsa Mosque is not stopped immediately, I see myself outside the coalition."

Yitzhak also noted that for many years he thought that the paratroopers' brigade had broken into the Temple Mount before him.

Jews hold a special prayer session at the Kotel following the wave of terror attacks this past week that have murdered eleven people.

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

A decisive majority of American Jews support the adversaries of Israel.

Meanwhile, the right-wing parties have discovered that the Kotel is a surefire issue to get the masses out.

Which room is this, and where?

There are reports of Israeli dead and wounded. The terrorist was neutralized.

The committee determined that the Temple Mount should be included in the mandatory sites for Ministry of Education tours.

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

There are some hard numbers about the Reform in Israel, and they're quite low.

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

Kariv has preciously used his parliamentary immunity as an MK to break the rules of the Kotel plaza.

An open letter to Minister Meirav Michaeli in response to her comments on freeing the Western Wall.