For 25 years, the Women of the Wall have met for prayer services at the Kotel at the beginning of each Jewish month. But until a Jerusalem court’s ruling this past April, women in the group who donned prayer shawls or sang too loudly would often be detained by police. Now the police are protecting…
Jerusalem’s children get to play in snow only about once every 7 years. But when they do get that chance — as they did this past weekend as the country fell under a sheet of white ice — they take to it like pros. Facebook and Twitter lit up with photos uploaded from millennials from…
Graffiti calling Women of the Wall “scum” was painted outside the Jerusalem apartment of one of the group’s board members. The graffiti discovered Thursday morning in the public stairwell of the apartment of Peggy Cidor, in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Talpiyot, also read “Peggy, watch out ” and “Women of the Wall are villains.” Cidor…
In its first service following its 25th anniversary ceremony, Women of the Wall prayed with little interference from protesters. The group, which meets for a prayer service in the women’s section of the Western Wall at the beginning of each Jewish month, drew about 100 women on Wednesday. At its 25th anniversary service last month,…
(JTA) — It was, perhaps, not the most auspicious setting for Ronit Peskin’s first-ever public speech. The 25-year-old self-described housewife stood in front of a crowded room at the biggest Jewish conference of the year, the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly in Jerusalem. She was about to verbally assail Women of the Wall…
Israeli fashion house Comme-Il-Faut presented their new collection during the recent Israeli Fashion Week. The inspiration for this season’s look? The Women of the Wall. Karin Leikovich and Sharon Daube, the designers at Comme-Il-Faut, told Ynet that they met with Anat Hoffman and Lesley Sachs, the leaders of the Women of the Wall, and saw…
On November 4, I celebrated the 25th anniversary of Women of the Wall with over 600 women at the Kotel — a joyous event that went off with little of the usual chair-throwing, whistle-blowing and megaphone-enhanced cursing that the group normally endures during its monthly prayer protests. Two days later, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman…
Susan Silverman is the woman who managed to get the world’s tabloids interested in the feminist struggle at the Western Wall. Never in Women of the Wall’s 25-year struggle for women’s prayer rights at the Kotel has it enjoyed such a high profile as it did on the February morning when police detained Silverman, 50,…
