{"id":13497,"date":"2019-08-20T19:41:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T17:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/08\/20\/american-jews-send-a-message-about-western-wall-controversy"},"modified":"2020-01-08T10:12:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T08:12:55","slug":"american-jews-send-a-message-about-western-wall-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/08\/20\/american-jews-send-a-message-about-western-wall-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"American Jews Send a Message About Western Wall Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kMLFsmOldNY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">i24NEWS clip<\/a> (03:22), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eli_Yishai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eli Yishai<\/a>, the former leader of Israel&#8217;s Orthodox Shas party, responds to a message from America&#8217;s Conservative and Reform Jewish communities about the Western Wall controversy. An internationally-recognized holy religious site, the Western Wall has always adhered to strict Orthodox standards including separate prayer spaces for men and women. Progressive Jewish individuals and organizations, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenofthewall.org.il\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women of the Wall<\/a>, have been pushing for an egalitarian prayer space for the past 30 years where alternative Jewish services may be held. The seemingly-endless back-and-forth between the progressive Jewish movements and the government is the source of heated debates both in Israel and the Diaspora.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this i24NEWS clip (03:22), Eli Yishai, the former leader of Israel&#8217;s Orthodox Shas party, responds to a message from America&#8217;s Conservative and Reform Jewish communities about the Western Wall controversy. An internationally-recognized holy religious site, the Western Wall has always adhered to strict Orthodox standards including separate prayer spaces for men and women. Progressive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":13498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2548],"tags":[3767,283,3111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=13497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13849,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/revisions\/13849\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13498\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=13497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=13497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=13497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}