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The fate of the Great Kotel Compromise

World Jewry may soon feel at home at the Western Wall…if Netanyahu doesn’t pander to his Haredi coalition members

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How my childhood shul became a televangelist church

As Jewish facilities shut down across Long Island, a reporter returns to the synagogue of his youth — recently purchased by televangelists affiliated with Joel Osteen

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With the Caribbean as their ritual bath, Colombian converts flow to Judaism

Synagogues in Santa Marta and Barranquilla comprised entirely of converts see an influx of members as the country’s Catholic monopoly is cracked

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Orthodox group joins call for Western Wall compromise

International Rabbinic Fellowship says holy site should be space where all Jews can 'experience the presence of the Divine'

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Ra’anana Reform synagogue vandalized, death threats left with knife

Attackers make reference to Western Wall struggle; progressive leaders call on government to end incitement against non-Orthodox Jews

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Sharansky to serve extra year as Jewish Agency chief

Former prisoner of conscience says he's motivated by need to resolve egalitarian prayer issue at Western Wall

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At 10, egalitarian yeshiva wants to expand learning among Jews in the pews

New York's Mechon Hadar seeks to reach out to different denominations, while still emphasizing traditional Torah study

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A Jewish hipster haven in the heart of Chabad’s Brooklyn territory

Known as Lubavitch Hasidic headquarters since the 1940s, Crown Heights is becoming home to a new kind of Jew

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Women Torah readers at French synagogue threatened, insulted

Marseille's chief rabbi condemns the reading, says it 'offends the sensibilities of the public'

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How Rabbi Shai Held is shaping the conversation around love and politics

The scholar wants to overcome the stereotype that ‘secular Jews are political activists' and 'religious Jews do mitzvahs,' saying he's 'never heard of a more false dichotomy'

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Torah scroll that women helped write to be unveiled in Madrid

Hailed as Spain's first egalitarian Torah, scroll is also the first written from start to end in the country in 500 years

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Traditional, egalitarian Yeshivat Hadar plans to ordain rabbis

New York City educational institute says selected students will be eligible for full-time study program lasting four years and leading to rabbinic ordination

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The Jewish egalitarian revolution that almost was in Renaissance Italy

15th century 'feminist' prayer books open a window into the Jewish world’s female scribes, first published poetess, and first evidence of women-centric prayer

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Chicago and Washington to get egalitarian alternatives to traditional yeshivas

Hadar, the New York-based egalitarian yeshiva, to open a program in Chicago, while in DC Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld plans to open Orthodox yeshiva for people of all backgrounds

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Who counts as a Jew? Pioneering yeshiva fumbles admissions criteria, renewing...

NY's Hadar quickly removes erroneous language on website saying applicants should have two Jewish parents, but sparks heated conversation about egalitarianism and Jewish identity

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