Anat Hoffman
Our kids need heroes. This book will give them who they need.
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 16, 2023
Call it the altruism deficit. It's real, and there are solutions.
The saddest bar mitzvah in history
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 21, 2022
What happened recently at the Western Wall is an outrage. Orthodox leaders must speak out. Loudly.
The wall belongs to all Jews
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 2, 2016
Religious diversity just won a major victory. Time to celebrate!
Women of the Wall pluck Torah scroll across partition to women’s section
By Michele Chabin — April 21, 2015
JERUSALEM (RNS) Once the men's service concluded, a female WOW activist stepped into the men's section, grabbed the Torah and took it into the women's section.
Sarah Silverman attends Western Wall Hanukkah menorah lighting in support of women’s rights
By Michele Chabin — December 18, 2014
JERUSALEM (RNS) For decades, the site’s sole menorah has been lit on the men’s side of the wall, a fact that has angered Israeli and American women’s rights activists.
Jewish feminists say they’d accept Western Wall prayer compromise
By Michele Chabin — October 7, 2013
JERUSALEM (RNS) The continued violence, and the government’s long-standing unwillingness to allow Jewish feminists to pray as they want at the Western Wall, has strained relations between the Israeli government and American Jews.
Jerusalem court upholds women’s prayer rights at Western Wall
By Michele Chabin — April 25, 2013
JERUSALEM (RNS) Women who want to wear prayer shawls while praying in the women’s section of the Western Wall are not breaking the law, according to a landmark decision handed down Thursday (April 25) by the Jerusalem District Court.
Tensions flare over women’s prayers at sacred Western Wall
By Michele Chabin — April 4, 2013
JERUSALEM (RNS) The ultra-Orthodox rabbi in charge of the sacred Western Wall assured a government emissary that Jewish women will not be arrested if they try to hold prayer rallies at the holy site, despite a warning from Israeli police.
Jews rally around woman arrested for praying at Western Wall
By Michele Chabin — October 23, 2012
JERUSALEM (RNS) Jews from Manhattan to Mozambique held prayer vigils on Monday (Oct. 22) to protest the arrest and incarceration of an Israeli feminist as she was leading 250 American Jewish women in prayer at the Western Wall. By Michele Chabin.
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