January 2011 campaign

To add your ongoing support, read and sign the Statement in Support of Women of the Wall!

In January 2011, a Unity Mission of over 30 Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist and Renewal rabbis from Northern California visited Israel to meet with Israeli government officials, learn together and demonstrate interreligious tolerance. Many of the rabbis on the Mission are supporters of Women Of the Wall, and raised our concerns during meetings with:

• Member of Knesset and Minister of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Yuli Edelstein (Likud)
  Click here to read MK Minister Edelstein’s supportive response.
• Member of Knesset Nachman Shai (Kadima)
• Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat
• Supreme Court Justice Salim Jubran (presented to Natalie Kimchi, Head of External Affairs for the Court)
• Supreme Court Justice Eliyakim Rubenstein (presented to Natalie Kimchi, Head of External Affairs for the Court)
• Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon (Yisrael Beiteynu)
• Jewish Agency Chair Natan Sharansky

In anticipation of these meetings, the organizations and individuals listed below prepared special letters.

At the end of each meeting, Rabbi Rosalind Glazer, an International Vice Chair of Rabbis for Women Of the Wall and a member of the Steering Committee of Bay Area Friends of Women of the Wall, presented each government official with:

• Letter from Bay Area Friends of Women of the Wall

In addition, Rabbi Pamela Frydman, International Co-Chair of Rabbis for Women Of the Wall presented each government official with all of the letters below:

• ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal
• American Conference of Cantors
• Association of Rabbis and Cantors
• Cantors Assembly
• Central Conference of American Rabbis
• Congregation Dorshei Emet
• Florida Financial Group
• OHALAH: Association of Rabbis for Jewish Renewal
• Pnai Yachadut: Reclaiming Judaism
• Rabbinic Pastors Association
• Temple Bat Yam
• Temple Emanu-El
• The Cantorial Vaad of OHALAH
• The Shalom Center
• University of Virgina Department of Religious Studies
• Women’s Rabbinic Network
• Rabbi Sue Morningstar, International Vice Chair (and 79 others)
• Rabbi Amy Eilberg, International Vice Chair (and collegues)
• Rabbi Yael Ridberg and Rabbi Shawn Zevit, Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association
• Hundreds of Individual Signatures