Comments on: Insults and injury at Western Wall

By: Sandra Cowley

Sandra Cowley — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:01:13 +0000

Tuvia Fogel you are funny. You clearly have absolutely NO IDEA about the Anglican Church! It is almost as traditional (read ultra conservative) as the Catholic Church. The church you are describing is the United Church. I'm Anglican. I am a devout Anglican, who is fortunate enough to belong to a church not bound by people's rules of fear, but by the love of Jehovah Eloheem and WHAT WOULD HE WANT US TO DO?

By: Sandra Cowley

Sandra Cowley — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:55:36 +0000

Do you really imagine that a God who gave so much to the world; who loves men and women equally, would make such rules to govern His chosen people, or ANY people who worship Him? These rules were made by men. Men who were ignorant and prejudiced against women because they were too insecure in their own masculinity. The Reform and Conservatiive Jews are the true interpreters of the Torah because they acknowledge Eloheem's LOVE, not His supposed strictures that treat fifty percent of His people like dumb, second-class humans.

By: Dave Rubin

Dave Rubin — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 02:19:52 +0000

Who are these Jeish people your referring to???

By: Michael Mostofsky

Michael Mostofsky — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:54:56 +0000

a- worry more about the jeish people being denied access to the temple mount.
b- the temple service also excluded women. Is that lost on you?

By: Michael Mostofsky

Michael Mostofsky — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:54:56 +0000

a- worry more about the jeish people being denied access to the temple mount.
b- the temple service also excluded women. Is that lost on you?

By: Michael Mostofsky

Michael Mostofsky — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:54:56 +0000

a- worry more about the jeish people being denied access to the temple mount.
b- the temple service also excluded women. Is that lost on you?

By: Dror Ben Ami

Dror Ben Ami — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:00:40 +0000

The western wall was built by an Idumedian murderer and has nothing what so ever to do with Judaism except in the minds of the rabbis….

By: Reuvain Stein

Reuvain Stein — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:33:18 +0000

Hoffman is head of one of the REFORM groups in Israel

By: Reuvain Stein

Reuvain Stein — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:31:25 +0000

1. The leader of WOW is Anat Hoffman, one of the top officials in israel. No orthodox group endorses or supports its actions.
2. The theology of Reform is a rejection of the Divinity of the Torah and the obligation of observing Mitzvot. Read the Pittsburg Platform.
3. Conservative attempts to straddle the fence however many of its Rabbis reject normative a jewish belief. For instance David Wolpe, rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles rejects belief in the Exodus. To put it bluntly he repudiates the first line of the Ten Commandments.
3. The provacations at the Wall are not about prayer, there is an area set aside for non orthodox prayer at Robinsons Arch. It's about forcing their beliefs on other Jews. It's politics.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:20:03 +0000

Tuvia Fogel: Does "Sinat Chinam" ring a bell to you?

By: Michael Horowitz

Michael Horowitz — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 04:17:26 +0000

Rabbi is you hold women are required to wear tzitzit shouldn't the conservative movement spend its time demanding all conservative Jews wear a tallit katan every day.

Can you name one conservative synagogue wear both the men and the women as normative practice wear tzitzit all day every day as Orthodox men do. If not then is this about religion as you write or about politics.

By: Michael Horowitz

Michael Horowitz — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 04:12:46 +0000

Why not have women at the wall pray on the Temple Mount Judaism's holiest site?

Will the Masorti movement endorse them and every other Jews right to pray on the Temple Mount and demand the state of Israel be willing to take action against those religious radicals whose threats of violence prevent a single jew from saying the shema quietly on the Temple Mount.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 02:26:47 +0000

In USA, capitalism died in stages from 1913 to 1971. Today, USA, Israel, China, EU, Russia have the same corporatism ("mixed economy" of Musollini adopted for multiple parties.) Sound rational thinking die at the same time. Natural individual liberties work ONLY via private property. Public property does not protect individual rights and is regulated by people's deputies (government.)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 02:26:47 +0000

By: Aviel Menter

Aviel Menter — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:54:47 +0000

Jews should support Israel but that's not a holy duty, it's contingent on Israel remaining a liberal democracy. Largely they do a good job, but then shit like this happens.