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I have not gone up although I yearn to walk, pray and worship on the holiest place on Earth for the Jewish people and it is emotionally depressing to see what is happening up there.
By JNi.Media
A search for "Palestine" in Google Maps does yield a proper reference to the entity, but with a blank map of Israel, with the areas of Gaza, Judea and Samaria marked with a broken borderline but not mentioned by name.
By JNi.Media
"Reform Jews in the US don’t have a single mikvah. All of a sudden they need a mikvah over here?"
The draft refers ten times to Al-Haram Al-Sharif, exclusively using the Islamic term for Temple Mount, without any mention that it is the holiest site in Judaism.
Watching the video is like watching an attack of zombies yelling "Allahu Akbar".
By JNi.Media
The mixed service is now a retaliation against Jerusalem Chief Rabbi's division of the designated mixed-prayer area.
A journalist heard about an old Rabbi who visited the Kotel, the Western Wall, to pray there three time a day, every day for 50 years. Thinking it was a great story, he traveled to the Kotel, and watched the old man at prayer. When he finished, the reporter went over to interview the rabbi […]
By JNi.Media
The Bennett solution resolves the conflict in a peaceful way, which is not something the Reform and Conservative movements want.
Police feel they will be unable to protect Jewish worshipers on their way to and from the Kotel via the Muslim Quarter.
Ari Fuld, standing on the roof of Yeshivat Netivat Aryeh, gives us a top-down view of the Kotel plaza, with tens of thousands of lovers of Jerusalem overflowing the square.
My family was at the Western Wall in Jerusalem along with tens of thousands of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and friends...
Avigdor Liberman went to the Kotel to pray after being sworn in.
By JNi.Media
France, Spain, Sweden, Russia and Slovenia were among the non-Arab nations who supported the resolution.
Stabbing victim had just become Israeli citizen, said he still plans to join the IDF.
Rewriting history, UNESCO decided that the unquestionably Jewish sites are Muslim.
By JNi.Media
The PA met with resistance from all sides.
Bibi gives the answers to the Ten Big Lies told about Israel.
By JNi.Media
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely called the UNESCO-sponsored resolution another “shameful and deceitful attempt” to rewrite history, adding that “the Temple Mount and the Western Wall in Jerusalem are the cornerstones of Jewish history. They are historical facts no one can dispute.”
The Palestinian Authority has circulated a draft resolution to declare the Western Wall, Rachel's Tomb and the Patriachs Cave as "Palestinian."
Hizzoner is in Israel this weekend. Unlike his predecessors, he planned a trip to a Ramallah school, but the wave of terror nixed it.
Shoshana Selavan, chairperson of the Old City's Jewish Quarter community, launches a new column on Jewish Life in the Old City.
By JNi.Media
There is no mystery, according to Jewish sources, about the precise location of the Holy of Holies. The real mystery is...
Tens of thousands of Jews are expected to arrive at the Western Wall at 4:30 p.m.
Muslim terrorists pray for war. Jews pray for peace.
Police have arrested another 13 Arabs Muslims in a massive effort to allow Jews to pray at the Kotel and visit the Temple Mount.
By JNi.Media
Ahead of their trip to Israel residents of the Jewish Home Assisted Living in River Vale and Jewish Home at Rockleigh have built replica Western Walls.
A rally for Jewish rights on Temple Mount will take place miles away.
Both Carson and Trump are solidly behind Israel, but their real drawing card is that they are not politicians.
The Islamic Waqf reportedly threatens a "disturbance" at the Temple Mount over Jewish clothing.
"Including the Kotel along with Yad VaShem and Mt. Herzl changes Zionism from 100 years to 3,000 years."
By JNi.Media
Jerusalem and Jerusalem's David's Citadel and King David Hotel made the top 10.
By Rachel Levy
Israel has a double standard for law enforcement when it’s Jews who are yelling “Allahu Akbar” in Jerusalem.
He refuses to consider Reform Jews as "Jews" but "welcomes them with love and joy" to be just like him.
CNN put the UNESCO site at the top of the list, implied Israel it to blame for its being "endangered but failed to mention Jordan's responsibility.
The Obama administration dug itself deeper in the hole by its reaction to the Supreme Court ruling upholding U.S. policy against "Jerusalem, Israel."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Final steps are underway for building the City of David’s “Kedem” visitor’s center in Jerusalem that will sit on top of the “Givati Parking Lot” excavation just outside of the Old City of Jerusalem’s walls. The visitor’s center will serve as an entryway to the Jerusalem Walls National Park, which includes the City of David […]
His "listening tour" will include a meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Carson's never having held a political office is a disadvantage - and a big advantage for those fed up with professional politicians.
The good news is that she does not claim she is Jewish or study Kabbalah.
"I Respect the President Barak Obama." That's what he said. We don’t know what meant.
Dr. Ben Carson is waiting for God to tell him if he should run for president.
He also chided Tel Aviv for encouraging violence by cancelling a school trip to Jerusalem.
Should Jerusalem schools boycott Tel Aviv because of the danger from underworld killings?
They had to use a magnifying glass to read the letters.
Does anyone remember Obama’s 20008 campaign speech that Jerusalem will remain “undivided?”
More than 500 Jews now live in the City of David and Silwan Valley.
Western Wall's employees, remove thousands of handwritten notes placed between the ancient stones of the Kotel, the Western Wall, Judaism's second holiest site, in the Old City of Jerusalem. The operation is carried out twice each year: before the Passover festival in the spring and at the Jewish New Year in the fall. The prayer […]
Netanyahu said that since the Jordanians opposed the bridge, "Of course we agreed." Of course.
Each of 30 terror runnels cost $3 million to build.
“Seeing the Bible come to life is quite remarkable” – Rick Santorum
One advantage of erosion of stones at the Kotel is more cracks for people to place prayer notes.
The chair in the photo below was donated in memory of terror victims US-born Dr. Applebaum and his daughter Naava. It (along with others) was stolen from the Kotel by Arabs, who took them to the Temple Mount.
Israel's chief rabbis led prayers Saturday night at the Western Wall for the safe return of boys kidnapped by terrorists.
By Shalom Bear
The Pope's visit will prevent Jewish prayer at the Kotel.
For the second time this week, and the third time since Pesach, the Kotel plaza was closed to visitors because no security guards could be found to men the security stations at the entrance to the site. It was the second time this week that the Plaza has been closed due to a shortage of […]
Jerusalem police closed the main entrances to the Western Wall plaza this morning (Monday). The Civil Security firm that provides security at the site simply did not have enough employees available for the job, according to a press release issued by the rabbi of the Kotel, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch. It was the second time in […]
The chisel was found along with a gold bell that may have been on the clothes of the High Priest.
‘Yesterday I was a Muslim. Today I am a Jewish man.”
Perhaps John Kerry will suggest Israel make a “goodwill” concession and ban Jews from praying at the Western Wall.
By JTA
The Women of the Wall still have an uphill fight ahead of themselves.
One is remembered for his mitzvahs and good deeds, and Rabbi “Heritage House’ Schuster will be remembered forever.
A Canadian Jewish legislator lost out on an attempt for a “million dollar shot” with Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a visit to the Western Wall (Kotel), Canadian media reported. Jewish Conservative Member of Parliament Mark Adler is looking ahead to next year’s election in his district where nearly 20 percent of the residents are […]
Israel’s Tourism Ministry’s aggressive pitch to bring Christians to visit Israel has paid off with another record-breaking year for visitors, led by Americans and Russians who accounted for nearly 35 percent of tourists. Three-quarters of the tourists visited Jerusalem, and 68 percent arrived at the Western Wall, Israel’s most popular attraction. Only 28 percent of […]
By JTA
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Union for Reform Judaism Biennial 2013 conference in a video address Sunday, “Peace is not a one-way street. It’s a two-way street” in his efforts for a peaceful solution to the Iranian and Palestinian Authority issues. He also praised recent efforts to find a compromise solution to interdenominational […]
None of us support violence and we found out about the story in the media, just like every one else.
The issue of women becoming involved in synagogue services to the point of holding a Torah scroll is as loaded in the Diaspora than it is in Israel.
Now here is a real ‘woman at the Wall.” Paula Adbul is in Israel for the first time ever and will visit the Western Wall. At the age of 51, the time finally has come for a Bat Mitzvah.
A high-speed train now under construction from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem may be extended to reach the Old City, according to an Israel Railways and the Transportation Ministry plan that will be stiffly opposed by Jerusalem planning authorities. The planned line includes a 1.5 mile tunnel linking the central train station, being built across the […]
The Western Wall Rabbi told Haredi girls to – in effect – let the Women of the Wall pray as they wish. An analogy to “let sleeping dogs lie” would be taken the wrong way.
By JTA
Move over Kohn Kerry and let the moviemakers take over. It took five years of negotiations for an IMAX visual tour of Jerusalem, including the three major religions, to come to the screen.
The Women of the Wall are unhappy again. Yes, they can read from the Torah, but now that have no scroll. It was damaged by dampness, and WoW blames the government for lack of proper storage.
If the Women of the Wall want equality with men, why don’t they try to perform the Priestly Blessing at the Western Wall? Do tribal distinctions contradict “equality?” If so, who needs a Reform "rabbi?"
The Women of the Wall was so focused on Haredim that the girls forgot to ask Jordan for permission to pray in their own minyan. Now maybe the WoW will wake up to reality and pray on the Temple Mount.
By JTA
Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky will release his full plan for a compromise among religious groups at the Western Wall in two weeks, Haaretz reported. Under Sharansky’s plan, first reported in April, an existing egalitarian section of the wall known as Robinson’s Arch would be expanded and a unified entrance would be built leading […]
Arab rock throwing continued on Tuesday, this time striking in the spiritual heart of Israel with an attack on an Egged public bus carrying passengers to the Western Wall. One woman was lightly wounded in the rock attack and was treated at the scene. The Arab attackers fled.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Above the two men, the PA flag featured the text “The Al-Buraq Wall.”
The Western Wall rabbi Wednesday may have taken the first step towards surrendering the Kotel to Muslims. He asked women and Temple Mount activists to respect Muslim sensitivities and to stay away.
History records the siege of Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, but archaeologists never have found evidence of the famine that plagued Jews – until now.
The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is scheduled to arrive in Israel Wednesday as part of a five-day trip to the Middle East. The archbishop is making sure to honor all three major religions, with visits planned to the Western Wall, the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount, and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. […]
A Kotel security guard shot and killed a homeless man he apparently thought was a terrorist.
By Guest Author
The Sanctuary was built with an ezrat nashim, a separate area for women.
It can be argued whether the Women of the Wall are spiritual angels, but no sane person could accuse them of threatening rabbis to approve their agenda or face death. So who is behind the dirty work?
World War III may have been close and may have been prevented on the Temple Mount, where the Jerusalem Mufti was arrested and then released for throwing chairs at Jews on Jerusalem Unification Day.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Stars from the hit American TV shows “Scandal” and “Once Upon a Time” visited the Western Wall Friday night during and found themselves immediately recognized by religious Jewish prayer-goers. ''People approached us at the Western Wall, saying they watch our shows,'' said Katie Lowes, who stars in the new American political thriller television series “Scandal,” […]
The women win a battle, but the question is, “Do they want a war they might lose?” Netanyahu approves Sharansky’s plan for women to pray like men in an “egalitarian” section at the Western Wall.
By JTA
The rabbi of the Western Wall said he "can live with" a plan presented by Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky for a permanent prayer section at the Western Wall where women can organize minyans, even one for men and women together. Sharansky briefed Rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Sites of Israel Shmuel […]
Sharansky says the Western Wall is long enough for women to have their own minyan and Torah reading. The Women of the Wall leader accepts the compromise. Will the Rabbinate big enough to agree?
Israel’s Haredi rabbis continue to make a mockery of themselves and of Judaism by pressing to arrest women for saying the mourner’s prayer at the Kotel. Sharansky comes to the rescue.
The year’s biggest photo op gets underway next week. Obama will smile in Jerusalem and Ramallah and pray in a church that he can “fool all the people all of the time.”
By JTA
A women’s Megillah reading at the Western Wall took place on Shushan Purim without incident or arrests on Monday, the day after most of Israel and the rest of the Jewish world celebrated Purim. Approximately 80 women turned out, some donning prayer shawls, others dressed as police and Haredi Orthodox worshipers, on Monday morning in […]
Purim is an upside-down holiday, but Women of the Wall Rabbi Silverman takes the cake. She calls the Knesset Achasverous, a wicked goy, and suffers “tragedy” for her regarding them as enemies.
By JTA
Police have agreed to allow the niece of American comedian Sarah Silverman will be allowed to attend a women's Megillah reading at the Western Wall despite being banned from the site. Hallel Abramowitz Silverman, 17, was one of 10 female worshipers arrested for wearing prayer shawls during a women's Rosh Chodesh prayer service at the […]
An estimated 85,000 people are expected to arrive at the Kotel plaza on Monday night for the final recitation of the Selichot prayers prior to Yom Kippur, the holiday of atonement.
By Tibbi Singer
The Al-Aqsa Institute said that Israel invented new methods to Judaize Islamic holy relics in Jerusalem.
Photographs seems like cruel slices from the past, frozen images of what will never be again. Since we assume the photographic image is, by and large, a factual view of some reality, it is inherently believed and trusted. But now be forewarned. It ain’t necessarily so. Bill Aron’s new images at the 92nd Street Y betray and beguile so as to force us to reassess the meaning of what we see.
The Western Wall checked out fine in a test of its stability by engineers.
Last night, an Israeli bus was pelted by stones thrown by Arabs as Jews traveled to the Western Wall. No, the Temple Mount itself is not enough for the Arabs and so they attack Jews who are even close by.
The wall will be fronted with 60 white cross "that symbolize the 60 million little baby boys and girls have been murdered since 1973 in America alone."
Following the liberation of East Jerusalem on 7 June 1967, IDF Chief Rabbi Major-General Shlomo Goren, blowing a shofar and carrying a Torah scroll, held the first Jewish prayer session at the Western Wall since 1948. The event was one of the defining moments of the war. Happy Jerusalem Day to all our readers!
When asked how he felt about the warm reception, the governor responded “it’s a little disorienting. I just got here 9 am this morning and did not expect to meet Americans from Tennessee, Minnesota, California, and New Jersey.” Chants of “2016” could be heard among the crowd, referring to the governor’s potential bid for the next presidential election in four years time.
July 3, 2026 
