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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Israel News American Jews Are Furious About The Western Wall — But What Can They Do?
American Jewish leaders are typically thrilled to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, and equally happy to host Israeli lawmakers at home. Not this week. On Monday, an angry Steven Nasatir, president of Chicago’s Jewish federation, left Netanyahu’s office feeling angry and vowing that his community would be assembling a blacklist of those Israeli…
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Fast Forward AIPAC Leaders Warn Netanyahu Of ‘Crisis Of Faith’ On Western Wall
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Three AIPAC leaders reportedly told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “we have lost the incentive to act for Israel” and of a “crisis of faith” among American Jews in the aftermath of the freezing of the Western Wall agreement. Outgoing president Lillian Pinkus, her successor, Mort Fridman, and managing director Richard Fishman…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Downplays Importance Of Israel’s Western Wall Flip-Flop
(JTA) — Jonathan Sacks, the previous chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, said the existence of an egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall means liberal Jews were not defeated by the suspension of a plan to expand that area. Sacks, who is an Orthodox rabbi, discussed the controversy around the Western Wall at a meeting…
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Fast Forward Ambassador To U.S. Jews: ‘Unite Behind Israel’ Despite Broken Wall Deal
Siding with the government of Israel in its dispute with American Jewry over allowing egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman criticized American Jews expressing their dismay with Benjamin Netanyahu government’s stance. “Yesterday I heard something that I thought I’d never hear. I heard a major Jewish organization say that…
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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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