Israel’s parliament has passed a preliminary reading of a bill that would put the country’s ultra-Orthodox chief rabbinate in ...
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The Western Wall isn’t just a public place — it’s an Orthodox synagogue
In the debate over Western Wall prayer, the traditional case deserves a hearing.
The vice chair of the World Zionist Organization said it was "a dark day in the history of Zionism and the nation-state of the Jewish people." ...
The event was organized by Ach Gadol (Big Brother for Lone Soldiers), a nonprofit that provides one-on-one mentorship and ...
Nikki Haley, President Donald Trump's U.N. ambassador, waded into a diplomatic minefield by asserting that the Western Wall is part of Israel, a deviation from U.S. policy. The longstanding U.S.
“The court is ordering an end to the foot-dragging,” Reform Movement attorneys say a decade after a deal to expand egalitarian prayer was struck. Israel’s highest court has delivered a unanimous ...
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Liberal Jews denounce bill to ban non-Orthodox prayers at Western Wall
‘It literally criminalizes non-Orthodox prayer,’ said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism in the U.S ...
Israel’s highest court has delivered a unanimous rebuke to state and municipal authorities over long-stalled plans to upgrade the Western Wall’s egalitarian prayer section, intensifying a dispute that ...
The bill passed by a margin of 56-47 and will now be discussed in Knesset committee meetings. It will still need to undergo ...
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Progressive Jewish groups decry Western Wall bill as a ‘stride toward becoming Iran’
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An expanded seven-justice panel of the High Court of Justice ordered the national government and the Jerusalem Municipality to move forward with building permits needed for repairs and ...
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