Once a month, just after dawn, dozens of women gather at the Western Wall to protest Orthodox Jewish insistence that women of non-orthodox faith must pray by Orthodox rules instead of the more liberal ...
Members of the activist group “Women of the Wall” pray with a Torah scroll during a monthly prayer near the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City July 24, 2017. Photo by Ronen Zvulun/REUTERS. “When ...
JERUSALEM — Jews from Manhattan to Mozambique held prayer vigils early this week to protest the arrest and incarceration of an Israeli feminist as she was leading 250 American Jewish women in prayer ...
At prayer, at work and at play, a woman’s experience of the divine is distinctive. What is changing, according to four new books on women’s spirituality, is that voices silenced for centuries finally ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Forming human chains and using metal barriers, Israeli police held back thousands of ultra-Orthodox protesters who tried to prevent a liberal Jewish women’s group from praying at a ...
On the first Saturday of each month, while weekly, traditional Shabbat morning services are taking place at Adat Shalom synagogue, another service transpires behind the main sanctuary that is anything ...
Godology is a monthly conversation between Forward columnist Elissa Strauss and Rabbi Scott Perlo in which they explore what it means to be “Godish” — to kind of, sort of, believe in God. ELISSA: ...