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Should Women of the Wall drop demands for equality at the Kotel and accept Robinson’s Arch? Yossi Klein Halevi debates Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi.

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I read with interest the adventure and/or misadventure of Anat Hoffman at the Kotel (“Back To The Wall, But Still Fighting,” Dec. 7). This letter is not meant to go into detail of the halachic issues of a women’s prayer group or my personal opinion of such groups; rather, it concerns following the rules. Rules […]

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Parents across the land and around the world hugged their young children a little tighter, a little longer this week, following last Friday’s unspeakable shooting in Newtown, Conn. Strangers comforted each other. America came together, if only for a long weekend. Why is it that too often it takes a tragedy to remind us of […]

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