TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israel’s government on Sunday approved a compromise to expand the non-Orthodox Jewish prayer section of the Western Wall, putting to rest the decades-long fight between ...

a group called Women of the Wall attempts to read Torah at the Western Wall, where egalitarian prayer is prohibited except in a special section and women’s prayer is circumscribed. Ushers ...

Mihrab This is an alcove within the qiblah wall (prayer wall) which shows the direction of the Ka’bah at Mecca. Minbar This is a platform from which the imam preaches his sermon during Friday ...

President William Ruto says a prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel. [PCS] The Western Wall, also known as the Wailing Wall, is the last remnant of the Holy Temple of Jerusalem ...

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