A Jewish woman, 73, who was praying at the Western Wall was struck in the head by a rock thrown from the Temple Mount by Palestinian rioters. The woman suffered a light head injury in the attack ...

The prayers in “A Jewish Women’s Prayer Book” cover a broad historical and geographic territory, incorporating contemporary authors responding to modern concerns — such as the discomfort ...

While some consider women’s group prayer proscribed in Jewish law, Original Women of the Wall demonstrates that with respect and tolerance, all Jewish women can practice according to their custom.

“It is totally disrespectful and denigrating to women to be treated in this unequal manner in the Jewish state,” she ... and white or blue and white prayer shawls worn folded around the ...

And the National Council of Jewish Women in a tweet echoed concerns that ... arguing that “for many Orthodox Jews, brief quiet prayer is a fact of every-day life, and may often have to be ...

It is commonly believed that halakhically-based women’s prayer groups originated in contemporary ... verse from the Torah that describes the Jewish nation: “Lo, a people that rises like ...

This is a prayer that is as universal as it gets ... who was against apartheid during all those early years was a Jewish woman by the name of Helen Suzman. Not to forget! Traveling on either ...