The Liba Center submitted a letter Sunday to Jerusalem District Commander Yoram Halevy and Attorney General Avichai Mandleblit calling for the opening of a criminal prosecution against members of the Reform Movement and Women of the Wall organization.
Violent skirmishes broke out Wednesday morning at the Western Wall as Reform, Conservative and Women of the Wall leaders and activists brought 14 Torah scrolls into the site in defiance of administrative regulations.
The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem is fuming over a draft decision distributed on Thursday by representatives of the European Union at meetings of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee in Istanbul on the subject of the Israeli capital’s Old City that completely ignores the Jewish connection to the site.
Rav of the Kosel and Holy Sites Shmuel Rabinowitz does not have semicha according to a Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) report.
An egalitarian prayer service at the Western Wall descended into a bad tempered skirmish on Thursday afternoon, when haredi demonstrators sabotaged an event held by the Reform and Conservative Movements to underline their demands for a pluralist prayer space at the site.
A potentially explosive prayer service planned for Thursday afternoon by the Reform and Masorti (Conservative) Movements in the upper Western Wall plaza has been approved by the legal adviser to the Religious Services Ministry and the Attorney General.
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate Council harshly criticized Thursday the conduct of Kotel Rabbi, Shmuel Rabinowitz, for his involvement of dividing the Kotel following the government’s approval for expanding the egalitarian prayer section.
A hassidic child cries, clinging to his father’s hand as an angry mob hounds them, hurling anti-Semitic abuse.
A week after a mysterious luxury vehicle was spotted parked on the grounds of the Western Wall, questions remain regarding how this occurred during a period of extremely tight security, and why police have yet to explain who approved its entry.