In a powerful act of solidarity, visiting Christian leaders placed notes bearing names of Nova Festival victims between the ...

Thousands of notes placed between the stones of the Western Wall over the past six months were collected and transferred to a designated "geniza" storage area for discarded sacred texts. As is ...

JERUSALEM — When Israel's new government took office last June, it indicated it would press ahead on an egalitarian prayer site at Jerusalem's Western Wall — a sensitive holy site that has emerged as ...

Israel's government on Sunday approved a compromise to expand the non-Orthodox Jewish prayer section of the Western Wall, putting to rest the decades-long fight between Women of the Wall and Israel's ...

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is new to the job, but spent his first day visiting one of the oldest and holiest site in Jerusalem’s Old City. Huckabee, at the behest of President Donald ...

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The following is the text of the prayer offered today by Pope Benedict XVI at the Western Wall in Jerusalem: God of all the ages, on my visit to Jerusalem, the “City of Peace,” spiritual home to Jews, ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — An American teen was harassed during her bat mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Friday as haredi Orthodox protesters sought to interrupt non-Orthodox Jews’ prayer one ...

The Western Wall Heritage Foundation reports that Reform women smuggled a Torah scroll through the public restrooms, in violation of the regulations and desecrating the sanctity of the scroll.

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