Plan to expand Western Wall egalitarian prayer section receives final approval
A plan to expand the Western Wall’s egalitarian prayer section received final approval, using a special regulation to authorize the work in order to make it a handicapped-accessible site.
Your Daily Spiel For July 24
Seth Rogen will be joining Canada’s Walk of Fame; a 100-kilogram block fell off the Western Wall; a heckler shouted “Free Palestine” at Tiger Woods.
Your Daily Spiel For July 19
Orthodox students hold separate-gender services at the egalitarian section of the Western Wall, Mark Zuckerberg clarifies remark on not automatically removing Holocaust-denying Facebook posts, recent study on the rate of sexual abuse among people who have left the Orthodox community.
Your Daily Spiel For June 28
American-Israeli convicted of making hundreds of bomb threats, Prince William visits the Western Wall, Miri Regev will not approve work on the pluralistic prayer pavilion at the Western Wall.
Rabbi David Lau’s ‘sexist’ remarks are sowing disunity
In an interview with The CJN, Chief Rabbi David Lau made some disturbing claims about the Women of the Wall.
Diaspora Jews are turning away from Israel. But why now?
The “red line” for many Jews has traditionally been that, while we vehemently disagree on how to move forward, we’ll never withhold our support. That’s what’s changed.
Netanyahu and the Wall: he broke it, and must fix it
Many in Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community, so blindly contemptuous of their unwanted Diaspora brethren, don’t know and don’t care how heavily they benefit from Diaspora support in many of its varied forms.
The haredim are making it very hard to be passionate about Israel
The Israeli government has given too much power to the haredim and it is having negative consequences for Jews living in Israel and around the world.
Your daily spiel for Tuesday, July 4
In today’s spiel: Israel announces reforms to its medical marijuana system; taking stock of Canada’s record on fighting Nazi war criminals; and Israel has a porn industry (who knew?).
The historical rift between Israeli and Diaspora Jews
The Israeli government’s recent decision to freeze a plan to expand a prayer space that can be used by men and women of all denominations at the Western Wall, in order to appease the ultra-Orthodox parties in the Knesset, may create an irreversible rift in the relations between the State of Israel and world Jewry.
