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


Women of the Western Wall: Holy places Rabbi stole our Torah scroll

Neither men or women are allowed to bring Torah scrolls to the Western Wall, but men are given access to Torah scrolls present on the site whereas women are not.

Yochi Rappeport-Zierler (center) at a Women of the Wall prayer service at the Western Wall

Women of the Wall call out female MKs over segregated Hanukkah candle lighting

A Jewish and democratic country must allow for full and equal representation and inclusion of women in all public religious events.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lighting a candle for the first night of Hanukkah

Women of the Wall reach out to Rabbi Rabinowitz… who doesn’t reply

Women of the Wall’s monthly prayer services at the women’s section of the Western Wall are routinely met with hostile jeering, screaming, whistling and other forms of harassment.

Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of the Western Wall, poses for a photo in front of the holy site

Despite heckling, Women of the Wall finish prayers at Kotel's women's section

Several religious women told the "Post" that they are missing the point of praying at the Western Wall.

Women of the Wall read the Torah while praying in the women's section of the Kotel plaza

The political is personal, too

A note left in the cracks of the Western Wall; a few worshippers braved the cold to pray there.

What’s the big deal with the Western Wall?

About 10 million people visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City every year, and yet among the questions I am asked most frequently is, “Why do you care so much about the Kotel?”

A charming moment by the Kotel.

Women of the Wall appoint liberal Orthodox director

Yochi Rappeport-Zierler says she hopes that WOWs goals will be realized in next ten years, hopes to change perception of organization and of pluralist Judaism in Israel during her tenure.

Yochi Rappeport-Zierler (center) at a Women of the Wall prayer service at the Western Wall

The ‘Four Daughters’ within me

How I grew from the one who doesn’t know to ask to the wise one.

Women of the Wall celebrating their 30th anniversary

The ‘Four Daughters’ within me

How I grew from the one who doesn’t know to ask to the wise one

The Passover Hagada from the Guenzburg collection of ancient Hebrew manuscripts and books is pictured at the Russian State Library in Moscow, Russia November 7, 2017.

Where is the respect at the Kotel?

The Kotel