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Chaos broke out across the Kotel as Women of the Wall held prayer services in the main plaza and Noam Party activists took over the egalitarian section. Hundreds of Reform rabbis from around the ...

Every week, dozens of bar mitzvah boys from Israel and the Diaspora celebrate their rite of passage at the Kotel, also known as the Western Wall, which, after the Temple Mount, is Judaism’s ...

The Kotel, or, more specifically, the 187 feet of the exposed main section set aside for Orthodox prayer, has an approximately six-foot-high mechitza to separate women from men.

Disturbances at the Kotel, sadly, are nothing new and rightfully raise anxieties and concerns across the Jewish world. But the events that unfolded June 30, when several families having b’nai ...

The Kotel is not a synagogue, and it doesn’t belong to any denomination. There should be no minyanim, no bar mitzvahs … and no barriers separating people at the Kotel.

It’s not because I’m afraid. And it’s not because I don’t think Jews like me have just as much of a right to go to the Kotel (Western Wall) as the people of any other faith group have to ...

The Kotel Affair, 1930 Rav Kook was subject to intense British pressure to grant the Arabs ownership of the Kotel in exchange for the right to pray there.

In Jerusalem, many people come to the Kotel for morning prayers just at sunrise, following the hours of learning. That Shavuot in 1977 I spent hours learning at the home of a friend.

The Wailing Wall - The Kotel Considered to be the holiest place for the Jewish faith, this 2,000-year-old wall made of limestone contains the last remains of the Second Jewish Temple. Attractions ...