Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has assigned famous former dissident Natan Sharansky an impossible task that The Daily Beast‘s Dan Ephron calls “almost cruel in its complexity.” No, it’s not ...

(RNS) — ‘It literally criminalizes non-Orthodox prayer,’ said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism in the U.S. JERUSALEM (RNS) — The Israeli parliament’s decision to introduce ...

JERUSALEM — Israel’s parliament has given preliminary approval to a bill that would put the country’s Orthodox chief rabbinate in charge of the entire Western Wall in Jerusalem, raising fears among ...

(JTA) — Israel’s highest court has delivered a unanimous rebuke to state and municipal authorities over long-stalled plans to upgrade the Western Wall’s egalitarian prayer section, intensifying a ...

Israel’s highest court has delivered a unanimous rebuke to state and municipal authorities over long-stalled plans to upgrade the Western Wall’s egalitarian prayer section, intensifying a dispute that ...

The High Court of Justice on Sunday raised the number of worshipers allowed at the Western Wall from 50 to 100, while also keeping alive a broader challenge to the state’s wartime policy for holy ...

(RNS) — A bill currently before Israel’s legislature, the Knesset, is bringing the long-debated and divisive issue of prayer at the Western Wall to a head. Israel’s parliament has given preliminary ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Israel’s parliament gave preliminary approval to a bill that would place the Orthodox chief rabbinate in full ...

“The court is ordering an end to the foot-dragging,” Reform Movement attorneys say a decade after a deal to expand egalitarian prayer was struck. Israel’s highest court has delivered a unanimous ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament has given preliminary approval to a bill that would put the country’s Orthodox chief rabbinate in charge of the entire Western Wall in Jerusalem, raising fears ...