Western Wall
Women’s group brings Torahs to Western Wall, faces backlash from conservatives
By Michele Chabin — October 30, 2019
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Several hundred schoolchildren, seminary students and adults gathered at the Western Wall to protest Women of the Wall members who brought Torah scrolls to pray with in the women's section.
Call it AIPAC-phobia
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 26, 2019
(RNS) — The season of irrational fears: of AIPAC, and of the Democratic Party. Let's cut it out.
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.
Israel minister proposes a train station named for Trump at Western Wall
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — December 27, 2017
(AP) The transport minister said this would honor the U.S. president’s “brave and historic to decision recognize the city as Israel’s capital.”
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.
Israeli government suspends mixed-prayer plan at the Western Wall
By Michele Chabin — June 25, 2017
JERUSALEM (RNS) The move is likely to improve Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's relations with ultra-Orthodox parties in his ruling coalition.
Trump in Israel, to visit holy sites
By Reuters — May 22, 2017
TEL AVIV, Israel (Reuters) - In Jerusalem, he will pray at the Western Wall and visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Trump trip to Middle East, Vatican offers religious opportunities and pitfalls
By Lauren Markoe — May 18, 2017
(RNS) Whether the president's time abroad will appease faith groups upset by his proposed Muslim travel ban and his waffling over the possibility of moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem — among other thorny issues — remains to be seen.
A busy holiday season in Jerusalem’s Old City
By Kit Doyle — April 13, 2017
(RNS) This year Easter as celebrated by Western Christians falls on the same day as the Eastern Orthodox observance, and that in turns falls within Passover.
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.
Israel’s High Court orders Western Wall rabbi to explain why women can’t pray
By Michele Chabin — January 11, 2017
JERUSALEM (RNS) The feminists’ legal challenge argued that the rabbi’s directive 'violates Israeli law against discrimination in access to or use of public property.'
