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Anat Hoffman
Dec 22, 2024, 6:36 PM
Women are not welcome at the Western Wall, not even on Hanukkah
Recently, I was honored to be named by the BBC as one of the 100 most influential women for 2024. The list highlights extraordinary women whose actions are reshaping the world. Yet, among all of them, one stands out...
Leon Moscona
Nov 10, 2023, 4:20 PM
Orpheus and Transfiguration through Arts
The new Heavenly-Jerusalem cosmic cycle is in the reality of the Kabbalistic World of Creation. In this reality we will enter through prayers and Divine words, through inspiring music, color rays of light, sacred dance, organic movements and celestial...
Todd Berman
Oct 5, 2023, 12:54 PM
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Dizengoff, the Temple Mount, and the Western Wall: One for all or all for none
All 3 have called for religious freedom, led to doubting others' sincerity, involved the court and police, and resulted in violence. We need a new kind of tolerance
Chana Yehudis Zahav
Sep 26, 2023, 7:26 PM
Mechitza: The Ultimate Feminist Tool
bs"d I grew up as a conservative cantor’s daughter who led shabbat services and read torah and prayed in a synagogue without a mechitza (separating barrier between men and women for prayer). I grew up feeling like synagogue was a...
Menachem Creditor
Jul 19, 2023, 2:57 PM
A Smuggled Torah and the Tyranny of the Majority
I’ve always felt linked to the month of Av. In it we mark horrific moments of Jewish history, and so a nickname for the month is “Menachem Av,” or “Comfort the Parent.” (Hence my feeling of connection.) The first...
Hallel Silverman
Feb 11, 2023, 8:08 PM
10 Years After Being Arrested…
February 11th, 2013 - 10 years ago today - I was arrested with my mom, Rabbi Susan Silverman at the Western Wall. Our crime? Praying at the Kotel while wearing a tallit (prayer shawl). Two months after our arrest...
Tuvia Book
Jan 22, 2023, 11:54 PM
Can a woman read from the Torah in public?
Fascinatingly, the entire issue of the generally accepted prohibition against women publicly reading from the Torah in the Jewish Orthodox world has its roots in the two words Kevod Ha-tsibur (“Congregational dignity”) found in an obscure Baraita (extra-Mishnaic text)...
Alan Silverstein
Dec 27, 2022, 7:38 PM
PM-elect Netanyahu: Ensure One Wall for One People
As pressures mount upon Prime Minister-elect Benjamin Netanyahu, one haredi demand is to legislate against any type of egalitarian prayer anywhere near the Kotel, including at Robinson’s Arch. Acceding to this demand would betray the promise of an egalitarian option...
Uri Hirsch
Dec 9, 2022, 4:57 PM
Respect your own as you would respect others
Before entering a Muslim mosque it is required, amongst other rules, to remove your shoes and maintain silence and resist using phones. Before entering a church there are also some of them that forbid wearing shoes as well but...
David Kalb
Aug 2, 2022, 6:14 PM
The Western Wall: Love and hatred
I have been in Israel for work for almost six weeks. One of the many positive aspects of my visit, has been tefilah (prayer) at the Kotel, the Western Wall, which I find very inspirational. On Friday morning July 29,...
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