One Wall for One People
New proposal for prayer at the Kotel will give egalitarian access to a designated section.
New proposal for prayer at the Kotel will give egalitarian access to a designated section.
This article was supposed to be about the view from the other side of the mechitza, but my experience at the Kotel on Rosh Hodesh (the new month) turned into so much more.
The Women of the Wall will be celebrating 25 years of women praying aloud at the Kotel… at the Kotel. Will you be there?
With the help of Storify and a guest blogger, we recap a Women of the Wall event in Israel.
As we get ready for Shavuot, the holiday that celebrates G-d giving us the Torah, let’s not hate fellow Jews for also loving G-d and the Torah.
At a Women of the Wall event on Friday, Rabbi Susan Silverman and others were faced with violent opposition from Haredi men.
TC Resident Laurie Radovsky was at the Western Wall when Women of the Wall Chair Anat Hoffman was arrested. Here is Laurie’s story, in her own words – an exclusive to TC Jewfolk.
Don’t miss these stories on: Women of the Wall founder arrested (with video), Clintons in the Jewish news, Mickey mouse Nazi art, Emmer and the Republican Jewish Coalition, and Aaron Gleeman on dining in the suburbs.
A lot of crazy #&#%$* happens in the Jewish world each week. Don’t miss these stories on why I hate United Airlines, anti-Semitism in Minnesota, more drama around building houses for Jews in Jerusalem, and Orthodox Jews throwing chairs.
Don’t miss this week’s hottest Jewish News. A terrorist attack on a Northwest Airlines flight, a fake Jewish American (Disney) Princess, a fake (maybe?) apology to the Jews from former President Carter, a failed Miss Palestine pageant, health care reform update, Europe’s Israel obsession, and female protesters in talitot at the Western Wall.