More in ‘wailing wall’

Sundown: Bringing Home the Bacon

Creative hate crimes, Madonna goes wailing, and Ben Stiller as secret weapon
By Hadara Graubart | 5:15 PM Jun 23, 2009

• A synagogue in Roundhay, England, was scandalized last Saturday to find bacon strips wrapped around its door handles and stuffed in keyholes. The local paper, Roundhay Today, adds insult to injury with a salacious ad for a t-shirt reading “Bacon Makes Everything Better.” [RT]
• “The wailing wall is a very sacred place for anyone ...

Family

Wolves at the Door

My brother and I carried our shared past in different directions
By Lawrence Levi | 10:53 AM Jan 6, 2009

One of my mother’s most vivid early memories is of the Nazis trying to break down her door. She was five, and the door was the big, heavy front one on the house she was born in, a few yards from the Arno in Florence. It was 1944. As she tells it, the Nazis, who ...

Ritual & Observance

Wail of a Time

Cries of antipathy and prayer collide at the Western Wall
By Lynn Harris | 2:52 PM Sep 26, 2008

I’ve been screamed at before. Protests at abortion clinics leap to mind; I’ve held signs, silently, as the more vocal among the anti-abortion activists howled and shouted the rosary, the volume of their clamor matching the depth of their conviction.
But I’d never been screamed at like this before. And this time, I was the ...