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US Jewish movements ‘outraged’ by Israeli PM’s decision to quash Western Wall deal
By Yonat Shimron — January 31, 2022
(RNS) — The prime minister said members of his right-wing Yamina Party opposed the plan, which would expand the current mixed-gender section of the Western Wall and create a joint management committee with leaders of the Conservative and Reform movements.
That rock that fell from the Western Wall
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 1, 2018
A large rock fell from the Western Wall. It might mean more than we thought.
Yes, I kissed the Western Wall
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 30, 2017
JERUSALEM (RNS ) — The Western Wall still moves me. Call me sentimental.
The good news from Israel
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 17, 2017
The biggest news from Israel is not the Wall and conversion. It is about how secularists are claiming Judaism for themselves, and for all of us.
Want Jewish pluralism? Get political
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 2, 2017
What's at stake in the controversy over prayer at the Western Wall? Only everything.
American Jews plan campaign to change Israeli minds about Judaism’s diversity
By Yonat Shimron — June 30, 2017
JERUSALEM (RNS) But they face an uphill battle in their quest to educate Israeli Jews who view religious choice as a foreign concept.
I love Israel. Her government: not so much
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 26, 2017
(RNS) A few 'inconvenient truths' about Israel and non-Orthodox Jews.
Orthodox high school girls bused to Western Wall to drown out feminist prayers
By Yonat Shimron — February 27, 2017
(RNS) Opposition to a government plan to turn a site at the Western Wall into an official, government-funded pluralistic prayer space is mounting.
Is ‘Pokemon Go’ good for the Jews?
By Lauren Markoe — July 18, 2016
(RNS) The "Pokemon Go" craze can teach us about God, if we know where to look for it.
Why we will not negotiate our rights to pray at the Western Wall (COMMENTARY)
By Vanessa L. Ochs — February 5, 2016
(RNS) While some proclaim a deal to provide women an alternative prayer space near the Western Wall as a step toward religious and gender diversity in Israel, an American Jewish feminist says it's an act of betrayal.
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.
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