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 ...

Editor's note: We recently ran a blog, "A Conversation with Anat Hoffman," that outlined her reasons for compromising with the Israeli government on women’s prayer at the Kotel. Today, we present ...

Rabbi Zvi Yehudah Kook recalled the tremendous pressure placed upon his father, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, that evening in 1930 in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem. “How intense, how grave, ...

On a sunny morning last month, I was swept into the women’s section of the Western Wall in Jerusalem in a flurry of aggression directed at the Women of the Wall, the Israeli group fighting for women’s ...

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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

Once upon a time, not so long ago, the Kotel had no barrier separating the sexes. It was an open place of prayer, spirituality and meditation for all Jews. Those were the days when Jews were not ...

Disturbances at the Kotel, sadly, are nothing new and rightfully raise anxieties and concerns across the Jewish world. But the events that unfolded June 30, when several families having b’nai mitzvah ...

In the wake of the Israeli government’s historic announcement on Sunday, Jan. 31, that a new, expanded egalitarian prayer space would be opened up at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Natan Sharansky, ...

What is the significance of the Kotel? Why do Jews gather from around the world to pour out their hearts facing this ancient stone wall? In 1937, Rav Tzvi Yehudah Kook published an article entitled ...