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Akiva Eldar

Akiva Eldar

Feb 11, 2016

Members of the activist group Women of the Wall wear Jewish prayer shawls and tefillin, leather straps and boxes containing sacred parchments, during an event near the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, Feb. 7, 2016. — REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Can Netanyahu scratch Americans from Jewish roster?

In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense

Members of activist group "Women of the Wall" speak to the media following the Israeli government's approval to create a mixed-sex prayer plaza near Jerusalem's Western Wall to accommodate Jews who contest Orthodox curbs on worship by women at the site, in Jerusalem's Old City January 31, 2016. REUTERS/Amir Cohen - RTX24SM9

After 27 years, men and women will be able to pray together at Western Wall

Mordechai Goldman

Mordechai Goldman

Members from Jewish religious parties attend a session of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem December 15, 2010. The session was held to debate a bill that if passed into law, would allow the state to certify the validity of all conversions to Judaism conducted by the Israeli army without the Chief Rabbinate's approval. The bill passed its preliminary reading on Wednesday. The political debate over the legislation underscored divisions on religious issues within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya

Netanyahu on collision course with US Jews over conversion to Judaism

Danny Zaken

In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel

Jewish worshippers covered with prayer shawls take part in a special priestly blessing for Passover at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City April 6, 2015. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun - RTR4W8AE

The wall that separates Israeli, US Jews

Akiva Eldar