Israel’s parliament has passed a preliminary reading of a bill that would put the country’s ultra-Orthodox chief rabbinate in ...

Sometimes a single episode reveals much about the big picture. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision on Sunday ...

For nearly a decade, the State of Israel has been playing a humiliating game of bait-and-switch at the Western Wall.

‘It literally criminalizes non-Orthodox prayer,’ said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism in the U.S.

The bill passed by a margin of 56-47 and will now be discussed in Knesset committee meetings. It will still need to undergo ...

Rendering Diaspora Jews unwelcome at Judaism’s holiest site, deepens a dangerous rift that, if not halted now, will become a ...

Diaspora leaders warn criminalizing non-Orthodox prayer at the Wall will exclude many from Judaism's holiest site, violate World Zionist Organization resolutions The post Progressive Jews sound alarm ...

The heads of the Reform and Conservative movements respond with dismay to legislation that would penalize egalitarian prayer.

It stipulates that non-Orthodox prayer – such as prayer services organized by women’s groups – constitutes a “desecration” of the holy sites.

Since Oct. 7, 2023 my early morning routine has looked like this: reciting Modei Ani, the traditional prayer Jews say when they first wake up, and then hopping on my cell phone to scan what I had ...