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Kotel

Women of Wall executive director Yochi Rappeport outside an Israeli police station with “Rudy’s Torah” after it was returned January 13, 2020.
Posted inNorthern California

After outcry, Sacramento Torah confiscated at Western Wall is released

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn January 15, 2020January 21, 2020
(From left) Susan Marx, Jane Jusel and Rabbi Pam Frydman at a Women of the Wall service in November, 2015 (Photo/file)
Posted inUncategorized

Our terrifying morning at the Kotel for Women of the Wall’s 30th anniversary

Rabbi Pam Frydman by Rabbi Pam Frydman March 28, 2019April 2, 2019
Anat Hoffman (center) with Rabbi Beth Singer (left) of San Francsico's Congregation Emanu-El at a monthly Women of the Wall service in Jerusalem
Posted inNews

Israeli religious freedom warrior Anat Hoffman coming to Bay Area

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 21, 2018September 20, 2018
Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky (center, in brown cap) and Knesset member Dov Lipman (right), at a protest held by American and Israeli Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside the Chief Rabbinate offices in Jerusalem, July 6, 2016. (Photo/JTA-Hadas Parush-Flash90)
Posted inOpinion

U.S. Jews obsess over Israel. But does anyone there care about diaspora Jews?

Zvika Klein by Zvika Klein July 20, 2017July 19, 2017
a boy cradles a Torah scroll in front of the wall
Posted inLetters, Opinion

What right have liberal Jews to insist on changes at the Kotel?

by J. Readers July 16, 2017July 13, 2017
A view of the Western Wall during Sukkot 2015 (Photo/JTA-Getty Images-AFP-Gil Cohen)
Posted inEditorial, Opinion

A painful rift between Israel and the diaspora

by J. Editorial Board July 14, 2017July 12, 2017
A view of the Western Wall during Sukkot 2015 (Photo/JTA-Getty Images-AFP-Gil Cohen)
Posted inBay Area, Israel, U.S., News

Reform leaders rethinking donations to Israel, says Palo Alto-based URJ chair

Ben Sales by Ben Sales July 6, 2017March 19, 2018
men and woman prayer toward the wall, backs to the camera
Posted inOpinion

American Jews really do care about pluralism in Israel. But there’s more to it.

by Andrew Silow-Carroll July 5, 2017January 12, 2018
hoffman is wearing a talit and being carried by two police officers away from the wall
Posted inOpinion

The Kotel controversy is a plot to bring Jewish pluralism to Israel

Rabbi Avi Shafran by Rabbi Avi Shafran June 30, 2017June 30, 2017
Singer dances in the center of a group of women, smiling and hosting a Torah scroll up over her head
Posted inEditorial, Opinion

Israel’s Kotel decision is just plain wrong

by J. Editorial Board June 29, 2017

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