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Am Echad weekly update for the week of January 9, 2022

Israeli religion and state legislation · The Kotel Compromise After being inundated with numerous inquiries from Jews around the...

The Western Wall partition won't bring Diaspora Jewry closer to Israel - opinion

There is a plan in the Knesset to partition the Western Wall and establish a plaza for mixed prayer. By SOL WERDIGER In recent weeks,...

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One Kotel Campaign Materials

Thank you for joining the One Kotel campaign. On this page you will find all the materials you need to share the campaign with your...

A stern rejoinder to Minister Elazar Stern

MK Elazar Stern's remarks on the Kotel partition are riddled with misstatements, platitudes, faulty reasoning and sophistries. Op-ed. One...

Leaders of Diaspora Jewish Organizations Speak in Support of Chief Rabbis

This past week the leaders of worldwide diaspora Jewish organizations, led by Am Echad, sent a letter to Uri Shoham, Ombudsman of Judges,...

Agudah’s Conference of Rabbonim Urges PM Bennett: Preserve Sanctity of Kotel

100 Rabbonim from the Agudath Israel Conference of Synagogue Rabbonim, have signed on to a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali...

Lobby to 'strengthen Diaspora’ launched in Knesset

A new lobby launched by the Knesset will focus on the problems of increased assimilation and declining attachment to Judaism abroad. By...

REFORM’S SIEGE OF THE WALL

Hamodia speaks with LEAH AHARONI as part of our continuing coverage of the battle over prayer at the Kosel. Mrs. Aharoni is director of...

Am Echad to Minister of Interior Shaked - Let Parents of Olim into the Country

Don’t cherish Jewish values? You don’t get to make the call - opinion

Liberals often completely overlook three issues that make up 'the moral matrix' – loyalty, authority and sanctity. By LEAH AHARONI "Look,...

Jewish group: Partitioning Western Wall will drive away Diaspora communities

In letter to PM Bennett, Am Echad, dedicated to strengthening relationship between Israel and Diaspora, says new Western Wall plan would...

Senior ultra-Orthodox rabbis denounce government religious reforms

Rabbis Chaim Kanievsky and Gershon Edelstein published a notice on cuts to child care subsidies for full-time yeshiva students, proposals...

Letter to Prime Minister Bennett in opposition to Partitioning the Kotel

Does Israel funding Conservative, Reform Jews threaten Jewish identity? - opinion

Israel’s Diaspora Affairs minister today celebrates the funding of progressive groups and causes whose same antipathy for religion and...

Bennett Betting On The Wrong

The idea that Reform has a bright future in Israel is pure fantasy By Yonoson Rosenblum At a recent Jerusalem Post conference, Prime...

The Jewish Agency needs a unifying leader at the helm - opinion

The new leader of the Jewish Agency must address critical issues of concern to all Jews, rather than focusing on divisive agendas that...

Israel needs a standard to define who is a Jew - opinion

By IRVING LEBOVICS (photo credit: OLIVIER FITOUSSI/FLASH90) “I decided to stay here.” During the “who-is-a-Jew” controversy in the 1960s,...

Am Echad weekly update for the week of August 1, 2021

Am Echad’s weekly brief takes a look at the latest developments in Israel, the Diaspora, and in the relationship between the two...

Making the case for the Chief Rabbinate

The Chief Rabbinate provides expatriate Israelis with an irreplaceable gift. By Menachem Levine AN ULTRA-ORTHODOX man stands near a...