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May 30, 2018, 2:34 PM

When is freedom of religion hypocrisy?

Illustrative, Tefillin. (image via Shutterstock)

Had the airport tefillin-wearer been female, she'd have been taken to task for being a 'provocateur'

May 6, 2018, 2:52 PM

Israel and Diaspora Jewry: We really need to talk

Charles Bronfman speaking at Hebrew Union College's Jewish Institute of Religion, May 3, 2018

Israelis must stop expecting US Jews to open their wallets and close their mouths: it's time for a dialogue of equals

Jan 25, 2018, 5:42 PM

What Israel doesn’t get about American Jews

Illustrative: Jews gather at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City to pray for rain, on December 28, 2017. (Flash90)

No matter how comfortable we are, we're always strangers in a strange land

Jan 25, 2018, 11:31 AM

Perpetual #PenceFence

Female reporters covering Mike Pence’s visit to the Western Wall on January 23, 2018. Tal Schneider is at left. (Michael Lipin/Twitter, via JTA)

For Women of the Wall, the discrimination against female journalists at the Kotel plaza was just more of the same

Dec 7, 2017, 10:45 AM

A Battle We Can’t Afford to Lose

This past November marked the Centennial of women’s suffrage in New York State. We tend to think that women’s right to vote was received in one stage in 1920, but actually, women had to win that basic right state...

Nov 28, 2017, 1:57 PM

Reform Judaism is no dog bar mitzvah

Illustrative: A group of American Conservative and Reform rabbis and the Women of the Wall movement members hold Torah scrolls during a protest march against the government’s failure to deliver a new prayer space, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, November 2, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

An Israeli journalist stooped to tar and feather Progressive Jewry, and mangled the notion of a Jewish People

Nov 4, 2017, 12:00 AM

Breaking the Jewish gridlock

An ultra-Orthodox woman whistles in protest of the Women of the Wall group's Rosh Hodesh (New Jewish month) prayer at the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 7, 2016 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

What if the Haredim traded progressive weddings in Israel for control of the Kotel?

Sivan Rahav Meir

Oct 8, 2017, 12:33 PM

An apology to the Western Wall

One million people voted with their feet and visited the Kotel in the 6 weeks from the first of Elul to Sukkot

Micah Streiffer

Aug 24, 2017, 9:40 AM

Strip-searching WoW -- really?!

Women of the Wall head Anat Hoffman (holding Torah scroll) at the Western Wall, July 24, 2017. (Hila Shiloni)

This effort to prevent the Women of the Wall from bringing a Torah to the Kotel subverts the Torah's value of justice

Richard Chasman

Aug 11, 2017, 11:55 PM

Corruption and Integrity

It's looking grim for Bibi now that Ari Harow has agreed to turn state's evidence. As the Times of Israel of August 4 reports, 'Ari Harow, a former chief of staff and aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, signed...

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