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(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 ...

Progressive Jewish movements in the Diaspora are outraged about a bill that could ban and criminalize non-Orthodox prayer at the Western Wall. Lawmakers voted 56-47 Wednesday afternoon in favor of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes a single episode reveals much about the big picture. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision on Sunday to cancel a ministerial committee vote on legislation that would ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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U.S. factory activity unexpectedly expanded in January at the fastest pace in more than three years, as production and demand recovered strongly, a survey of manufacturing firms said. The Institute ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,000‑year‑old Jewish ritual bath beneath the Western Wall Plaza in Jerusalem that bears ash and destruction debris from the Roman conquest of the city in 70 C.E., ...