Jewish Telegraphic Agency7y
These American Jews are looking beyond the Western Wall – to prayer on the Temple Mount
The Western Wall is a retaining wall of the mount, built by the Jewish ruler Herod at a time ... Hayman started the Yishai Organization for Building Synagogues on the Holy Mountain in 2013 ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency12y
Who controls the status quo at the Western Wall?
Using the power of the law, the Western Wall Heritage Foundation and its chairman, Western Wall Chief Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, have kept the holy site exclusively Orthodox. JERUSALEM (JTA ...
Post and Courier7y
Feminist Jewish activist Lesley Sachs on the rights of women to worship at Jerusalem's Western Wall
"What we’re demanding to do is not against Jewish law," she added. "The Western Wall is not an ultra-Orthodox synagogue. It is a national holy site that belongs to all the Jewish people and ...
The Jewish Chronicle5d
When the world stood still: a Jewish timeline of the pandemic, five years on
Across the UK, events have been held to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the pandemic’s onset, paying tribute to the ...
Raleigh News & Observer18d
Raleigh’s oldest synagogue has been a hub for Jewish life for 150 years. How it thrived
Courtesy of Beth Meyer Synagogue Even in those headier days of Raleigh Judaism, a rabbi would live ... a replica of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, complete with one actual stone from the old ...
BBC10mon
What is Judaism?
Jews worship God in a synagogue. Jewish people attend services ... universe and protects his people from harm. This is the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem in Israel.