Tagged: holy site accessibility

stairs up the entrance to the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron

December 13, 2021

What Does the NYC Muslim Center have that the Ibrahimi Mosque Doesn’t?

Is it possible that Muslims care more about their co-religionists in NYC than those in Hebron? Is it possible that they care more about their mosque in NYC than about the Ibrahimi Mosque in...

accessibility to the Cave of the Patriarchs

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March 6, 2021

If this was about a mosque, the elevator would have been built decades ago.

Finally! The end of a surrealistic battle that should shame everyone who fought against making a religious site accessible to the disabled, the elderly and pregnant women who are left at the bottom of...

the accessibility elevator is a human rights issue

Keeping Up With Our MKs

August 21, 2020

Only in Israel: Human Rights Activists Against Human Rights

I wonder if it is only in Israel or concerning Israel that we find human rights activists fighting human rights. And our government does not seem to know how to deal with it. In...

carrying disabled person in wheelchair up stairs leading to entrance to the cave of the patriarchs

First-Hand and Investigative

November 14, 2019

When an Elevator is Not Just an Elevator

The Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron is visited by nearly a million people annually, Jews, Muslims, Christians who come to worship at the burial site of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and their wives...