At approximately 6:30 am, the group tried to enter the Kotel plaza with a regularly-sized Torah scroll, which it intended to use for its “rosh hodesh” (marking the new month on the Jewish calendar) ...

Outgoing New York City Mayor Eric Adams visited the Western Wall, emphasizing his commitment to Israel and the Jewish people: ...

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Rabbi Zvi Yehudah Kook recalled the tremendous pressure placed upon his father, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, that evening in 1930 in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem. “How intense, how grave, ...

Once upon a time, not so long ago, the Kotel had no barrier separating the sexes. It was an open place of prayer, spirituality and meditation for all Jews. Those were the days when Jews were not ...

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Jews from around the world have been dreaming of Jerusalem for thousands of years, not because of the city per se, but because of the structure that stood at its summit and what that place still ...

Thousands of Jews prayed the early Vatikin morning service at the Kotel (Western Wall) on Sunday morning, in a show of faith and defiance on Hoshanah Rabbah, the last day of the Sukkot holiday.

Disturbances at the Kotel, sadly, are nothing new and rightfully raise anxieties and concerns across the Jewish world. But t he events that unfolded June 30, when several families having b’nai mitzvah ...

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NEW YORK – Leadership within the world’s largest Jewish umbrella organization expressed fury with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday over his decision to suspend his own 2016 policy allowing ...

‘Why do they get to have all the fun?” “Aren’t we people too?” These were some of the questions from Sofi, my friend’s 10-year-old daughter, during her first Friday night at the Kotel. She stood on a ...