When the Israeli cabinet approved a proposal intended to resolve a festering conflict between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews at the Western Wall, no one seemed to notice the parallels between this ...

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Jewish communities might be fighting about fair access to the Kotel, but what is missing from the discussion is Jewish use of holy places in Jerusalem. The Muslim Waqf and the Palestinian Authority’s ...

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Tzachi Hanegi. Rabbi Gilad Kariv, Executive Director of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism is behind Hanegbi and to his left. My photo. I just returned from meetings of the Board of Governors ...

The Netanyahu government on Sunday morning voted to delay the implementation of its January 2016 plan for a distinct, mixed prayer area at the Kotel plaza, under pressure from the Haredi parties. A ...

The universally renowned first Chief Rabbi of pre-state Israel, Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook (1865-1935) is recognized as being among the most important Jewish thinkers of all time. His writings ...

Far more pressing to most Israelis than the compromise to allow egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall are Israeli government restrictions on marriage, conversion and public transit on the Sabbath, ...

Reform movement leader, MK Giiad Kariv (Labor) raises victoriously a Torah he was able to smuggle into the Kotel plaza using his parliamentary immunity, Rosh Hodesh Adar B, March 4, 2022. Hundreds of ...