Women of the Wall

Bennett, Netanyahu helped build Western Wall's Ezrat Yisrael, but will either secure its future?

Netanyahu approved the Western Wall compromise before freezing it. B’Yachad promises to preserve the egalitarian section, while Women of the Wall demands full implementation of the agreement.

The Western Wall
A HOLOCAUST survivor lights a torch during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Women of the Wall call on Katz to include women in national Remembrance Day ceremony

 A FAMILY prays at the section of the Kotel designated for non-Orthodox worship.

High Court grills state, Jerusalem over years-long holdup at egalitarian Western Wall Plaza

 WOMEN OF the Wall members hold Rosh Hodesh prayers at the Ezrat Israel pluralistic prayer ground, 2019.

Women of the Wall attempt to smuggle Torah scroll in baby stroller, inciting clashes


Religious life in Jerusalem and Women of the Wall

I wonder if they keep the other Torah commandments, especially those for women.

CALLING THEMSELVES ‘Women of the Wall,’ they turn up at the beginning of each Jewish month for morning prayers, not to pray quietly alongside other women, but to begin a loud communal service with their own leader chanting the prayers and disturbing the devotion in that relatively small area.

Women of the Wall – your sisters invite you to dialogue – opinion

The stones of the Kotel have born witness to cultures rising and falling, as authentic Judaism has endured.

WOMEN PRAY at the Western Wall Tunnels.

The Women of the Wall extend forgiveness to those who wronged them

We understand and know that the only way for change to happen is for both sides to extend compassion.

Women of the Wall pray at Robinsons Arch after several clashes at the main Western Wall plaza

Women of the Wall accused of violating coronavirus restrictions

Women of the Wall attacked at Western Wall, suspect arrested

The Western Wall plaza has been divided into prayer sections to comply with restrictions on gathering outside. May 05, 2020

A time to take a look within

“That’s it?” I thought to myself. How could it be that this crowd of seminary girls, yeshiva boys, and photographers are so inflamed about a few women coming to pray at the Western Wall?

WOMEN OF THE Wall dance with a Torah scroll at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Women of the Wall to resume prayers at the Western Wall

CEO of Women of the Wall said that one can only imagine how the Western Wall would be perceived by every Jewish person from Israel and from the diaspora, had the Kotel compromise gone through.

WOMEN OF THE Wall dance with a Torah scroll at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

The split between the ultra-orthodox and secular Jews must be repaired

An open letter to the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs.

Bike-riders and synagogue-goers. ‘I don’t really miss doing the full ultra-Orthodox Yom Kippur because I don’t really feel the need to check off all the boxes or anything. For me it’s more important to just commemorate the day and have the feel of Yom Kippur,’ says Dovid.

Women of the Wall write a letter in protest of Arye Deri's decision

The organization expressed great concern about the decision, despite "the pain caused by leaving the Western Wall empty for the first time in the State of Israel's history."

Members of "Women of the Wall" pray with a Torah scroll during a monthly prayer near the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City July 24, 2017

Well-behaved women seldom make history

Our presence as women in the public sphere is something that was not always taken for granted. It is the result of the determination of “provocative” women.

WOMEN OF THE Wall dance with a Torah scroll at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Seven years after my arrest, Israel is still in religious handcuffs

It was a crime of passion – prayer. I had been praying at the Western Wall with Women of the Wall, wearing a tallit exactly as I had since my bat mitzvah.

‘I HAD been praying at the Western Wall with Women of the Wall, wearing a tallit exactly as I had since my bat mitzvah.’