Worship at the Western Wall: Learn & Act

Dear Friends,

I hope you saw my rabbi’s message yesterday about the B’nei Mitzvah ceremony we held at the Western Wall during our Israel trip and the issue of worship at the Wall.  Today I received the following from Anat Hoffman, the Executive Director of the Israel Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (IRAC) and the Chairperson of Women of the Wall (WOW) .  There is a petition you can sign (if you agree with it and want to engage in such advocacy). 

If you want to send a letter to Natan Sharansky, Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, who has been given authority to make decisions regarding this issue, you might want to use this link to a place on the IRAC site. 

Here is the link to the New York Times piece on this topic from a couple of weeks ago:

A couple of other pieces you might want to read, if you are interested in this issue:   

“Unity is Not Uniformity:  An Open Letter to Natan Sharansky” by Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, the Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University in LA:

And “Rethinking Jewish Life:  For the Sake of Heaven?” by Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit Halachmi of the Shalom Hartman Institute and Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem:

Kol Tuv – All the best,

Jordan