Women of the Wall: We’re 'Liberating' the Kotel Head of ‘Women of the Wall’ group compares provocation-causing group to soldiers who fought for Jerusalem.

The Wailing Wall - The Kotel. Considered to be the holiest place for the Jewish faith, this 2,000-year-old wall made of limestone contains the last remains of the Second Jewish Temple.

Women of the Wall was granted the right to read the Torah in a 2014 Supreme Court ruling. Still, Hoffman explains, as a practical matter, it is almost impossible because of a 2010 law that ...

In a display of the changes the group has experienced this year, Women of the Wall held a peaceful prayer service under police protection at the Western Wall to mark the group’s 25th anniversary.

Conflict was reported at the Kotel (Western Wall) on Friday as the Women of the Wall (WoW) group attempted to hold a non-traditional prayer gathering after receiving a Supreme Court verdict ...

This past Rosh Hodesh, a group of rowdy and misled teens, who came to protest the monthly Women of the Wall event, blew up a bar mitzvah celebration.

The Israeli government has a new plan for the Western Wall. The good news: within the government there’s a lot of support for it. The bad news: the Kotel wars are going to continue. The plan, in ...

Women of the Wall has agreed in principle to pray in a new egalitarian space adjacent to the Western Wall Plaza, provided that the new section meets several of its conditions regarding the new ...

Bonna Devora Haberman is one of the co-founders of Women of the Wall. Since receiving her Phd in Ethics and Education from the University of London, Dr.

JERUSALEM (RNS) — I have been in Israel all month, and it took me four weeks to visit the Kotel (the Western Wall). This is a first for me; usually, I meander in that direction within my first ...

JERUSALEM — The Women of the Wall group vowed to continue reading from the Torah in the women’s section of the Kotel in the wake of a report that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised ...