This is the Forward’s coverage of the Western Wall, also called the Kotel, a Jewish holy site in Jerusalem adjacent to the Temple Mount.
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Fast Forward Presidents Conference Warns Israel Over Western Wall Debacle
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An erosion of American Jewish support for Israel could result from the freezing of the Western Wall agreement, an influential Jewish umbrella group said in a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “It is imperative that the government move expeditiously to address this matter and come up with a resolution that…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Top Court To Hear Lawsuit To Revive Western Wall Prayer Deal
(JTA) — The Israeli Supreme Court will hold a hearing in July on the status of the non-Orthodox section of the Western Wall. The court will convene July 30 to discuss a petition from last year calling on the Israeli government to implement the Western Wall compromise passed in January 2016, according to Anat Hoffman,…
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Fast Forward Jerry Nadler Slams Israel’s Western Wall ‘Insult’
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat who represents the most heavily Jewish district in the nation, has been bombarded by angry calls over the Israeli government’s decision not to create an egalitarian prayer space at Jerusalem’s Western Wall. “People are outraged,” Nadler said. “This is a direct declaration by the government of Israel that…
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Opinion To Fight The Kotel Decision, U.S. Jews Have To Understand Israeli Politics
One day in May 1935, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin welcomed French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval to Moscow to discuss the rising Nazi threat and France’s defensive plans. How many troops mobilized? Armored divisions? Artillery? At one point, historians say, Laval asked Stalin to ease his harsh treatment of Russian Catholics in order to ensure the…
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Community I Don’t Agree With Israel’s Western Wall Agreement — But I Will Defend Israel All The Same.
At my age, 89, I remember only too well a world sans Israel. Each of us uses her or his experience and wisdom to exercise judgements concerning Israel and the Jewish People. My capacity to do so is constrained by the experiences of my pre-1948 life. One example to illustrate. In 1944, at my age…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Insists Western Wall Prayer Plan Isn’t Dead
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the leaders of U.S. Jewish federations on Monday that any other premier would have given in to pressure from ultra-Orthodox political parties and completely canceled the plan for an egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall, two senior Israeli officials involved in the meeting told Haaretz. The meeting was called…
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Opinion Most Jews React To Netanyahu’s Western Wall Decision With Outrage
Seventeen months after a historic deal was reached that would allow egalitarian and non-Orthodox prayer spaces at the Western Wall, Israel’s governing cabinet suspended the agreement, bowing to pressure from Haredi parties in the government who wish to maintain the status quo. Reaction throughout the Jewish world has been swift and loud. Diaspora Jews, particularly…
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Fast Forward Jewish Agency Vows No ‘Business As Usual’ With Israel After Western Wall Move
The Jewish Agency’s board of governors canceled a scheduled dinner with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the Israeli government decided to freeze a plan to create an egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wall. Also Monday, the heads of the Reform movement in the United States and Israel said they would cancel a meeting with…
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