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Kotel

Abraham Orkin Freedman's photograph of the Western Wall from 1921 showed men and women praying together at the Jewish holy site. (Courtesy Tower of David Jerusalem Museum)
Posted inPhotography

The hunt is on for forgotten images of the Western Wall

by Deborah Danan June 9, 2026June 9, 2026

(JTA) — When David Freedman discovered a long-forgotten photo album in his parents’ Montreal basement last year, he found nearly 100 pages of century-old photographs from his grandfather’s year in […]

Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin stands in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. (Courtesy Bodzin)
Posted inOpinion

13 years after my arrest at the Kotel, the threat to egalitarian prayer there is growing

by Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin June 4, 2026June 4, 2026
Singer dances in the center of a group of women, smiling and hosting a Torah scroll up over her head
Posted inNews

Bill to criminalize egalitarian prayer and immodest dress at the Western Wall is shelved after outcry

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA February 9, 2023
Lucia da Silva (center) prays with Women of the Wall during her bat mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall. (Photo/Forward-Tal Kfir Schurr)
Posted inOpinion

Sorry situation at Western Wall; SFUSD wrong on Muslim holidays; etc.

by J. Readers August 18, 2022August 18, 2022
Lucia da Silva (center) prays with Women of the Wall during her bat mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall. (Photo/Forward-Tal Kfir Schurr)
Posted inYouth Voice

I went to Israel for my bat mitzvah at the Western Wall — but an angry ultra-Orthodox mob tried to stop it

by Lucia da Silva and Forward August 4, 2022
Thousands of protesters gathered around non-Orthodox women, including a bat mitzvah girl and her family, at the Western Wall, July 29, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Noga Tarnopolsky)
Posted inNews

Orthodox protesters disrupt bat mitzvah at Western Wall as monthly ritual repeats

Noga Tarnopolsky by Noga Tarnopolsky and JTA August 1, 2022
Security guards confront members of the Women of the Wall movement during Rosh Hodesh prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Olivier Fitoussi-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Harassment at a Western Wall bar mitzvah renews the fight over prayer spaces in Israel

by Andrew Lapin and JTA July 8, 2022July 8, 2022
Members of the Women of the Wall movement hold Rosh Hodesh prayers as thousands of ultra-Orthodox women protest against them at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, March 8, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Hadas Parush-Flash90)
Posted inNews

‘Infuriating and upsetting’: Liberal Jewish movements condemn Israeli PM’s decision not to implement Western Wall agreement

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA February 1, 2022
A member of the Women of the Wall clutches a Torah scroll cover as she is surrounded by Israeli security forces holding back protesters at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 2021. (Photo/RNS-AP-Maya Alleruzzo)
Posted inNews

Ceding to religious right, Israeli leaders table plan for egalitarian prayer space at Western Wall

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 13, 2021
Nachman Shai, Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs (center) takes part in a panel discussion at Manhattan's Stephen Wise Free Synagogue with Elliot Cosgrove, senior rabbi at Park Avenue Synagogue (left), and Lori Koffman, director of content and innovation at Park Avenue Synagogue, Dec. 6, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Twitter)
Posted inU.S.

In New York, Israeli minister promises progress on Western Wall’s non-Orthodox prayer space

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA December 9, 2021

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