The Bukharian rabbi, it turns out, composed the prayer especially for her to say at the Wailing Wall. I look at the wall, and a feeling of being orphaned grips me. Before my eyes I see a wall ...

The opera’s enormous, slablike stone fagade, 660 ft. long and 126 ft. high, was quickly dubbed the “Wailing Wall.” But despite their criticism, Berliners were grateful that the opera was ...