(JNS) Visitors in the Old City of Jerusalem hoping to spend time at the Western Wall—adjacent to Judaism’s most sacred site, the Temple Mount—must either descend 142 steps from the Jewish Quarter or ...

Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the Rabbi of the Western Wall, demanded that a stone taken from the wall, which was moved to an exhibit at Ben-Gurion Airport, be returned to its original place in a letter on ...

Israeli officials and politicians expressed outrage Monday after graffiti was sprayed on Jerusalem’s Western Wall reading, in Hebrew, “There is a Holocaust in Gaza” and “Children are dying of hunger.” ...

Thousands of Jewish worshippers packed the Western Wall Plaza in Jerusalem on Sunday for the Passover priestly blessing, an event that takes place annually during the intermediate days (Chol Hamoed) ...

(New York Jewish Week) – A hyper-realistic 19th-century painting of worshippers at the Western Wall that spent many forgotten years in a synagogue’s storage room is headed to auction at Sotheby’s New ...

Notes placed into crevices between the ancient stones of the Western Wall in Jerusalem were removed on Sunday ahead of the Jewish new year festival, Rosh Hashanah. The notes are cleared out twice a ...

A group from the "Women of the Wall" organization, associated with the Reform movement, brought a Torah scroll into the women's section of the Western Wall this morning (Friday)during the Rosh Chodesh ...

(JTA) — A proposed Israeli law that would sharply curtail the rights of women and non-Orthodox Jews at the Western Wall sparked alarm on Thursday, leading Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ...

I am talking about the steps that lead from the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem, down to the Western Wall plaza. This week marks the 47th anniversary of the first time I descended those steps and then ...