CWJ fights for women excluded from the public sphere

01/12/2015

For two years, CWJ letters to the Attorney General’s Office have demanded that the Commissioner of the Western Wall include women in the Wall’s public Chanukah candle-lighting ceremonies.

In December 2015, the Attorney General finally took action: stating that the women have the right to light candles at the Western Wall, she directed the Wall’s Commissioner to include them in this year’s Chanukah celebrations. We’ll see if the Commissioner complies! Ha’aretz details this story.