Have you ever seen this in a normal western country. MayBe the high court of justice will ask IKEA to put a mosque. This is ridiculous.

I think they should speak yiddish too.

the haridim ruined elal - now it will be ikea.

in Ikea Israel to attract Israeli Chirstians and Muslims! LOL

So they made Ikea kosher and they are putting in a shul. Whats bad? Dont want to daven? Don't go there. Dont want to eat kosher? Dont eat there. Sheesh. There are a lot of Haredim in Israel and Ikea is doing what they can to attract them as consumers. If you dont love Haredim, fine. You should keep it to yourself, considering the time of year.....if you even care.

they were complaining the other day about the prices, I guess a jew is a jew.

stay in paris. "have you ever seen this in a normal western country." -- to answer your question, ISRAEL IS NOT A "NORMAL WESTERN COUNTRY". except the fact that it is a democratic country it stands alone as THE ONLY JEWISH COUNTRY IN THE WORLD AND IF THERE ARE SOME VOICES OF REASON OUT THERE, FINALLY ADDING TO ISRAEL'S JEWISH CHARACTER, THEN THAT IS A GOOD THING!

Israel is a Jewish State. Synagogue opens at IKEA, If you like it or not, it will stay =]

I agree with JK. This shouldn't be a big deal. This is a Jewish owned business in a Jewish majority state trying to be more accommodating of their customers. Even as a Masorti ("traditional") Jew I appreciate having a place where I can get a kosher nosh. This is not "Iran"; there's no one imposing a standard on anyone else.

Its just business. Don't shop at IKEA if you don't like it.

rediculous idea or a PR stunt: Ikea is way out of town. No religious Jew can get ther on foot.

Jews criticizing a synagogue in a Jewish country. Listen to #8 and #6 and let religious Jews pray while they shop.

It's not a PR stunt, Israel is not turning into Iran. I sometimes shop at Zol-Po, a very large supermarket where many religious, as well as non-religious shop. At Zol-Po, they announce the afternoon and evening prayers over the loudspeakers and all the men willing to participate rush to the area selected for the prayer, and they daven together. There is no shul at Zol-Po, the men stand together in a section of the store. The reason for this is due to many families needing to shop after working hours and if they weren't able to pray there, a lot of the families would leave very quickly for the men to be able to make it to the prayers on time. Since they can pray in that supermarket, there is no rush. They pray and then return to their shopping. As a religious woman, I appreciate that my husband isn't under pressure when we go shopping there as he's not worried about missing the prayer. A shul in Ikea? Maybe the people at Ikea thought it best to give prayers some privacy. Kudos to Ikea! I wonder how many other stores are katering to the religious among us (much more numerous than you might think). For those of you who oppose the shul in Ikea, you should do some soul searching as to why that is so. Do you hate the religious that much? Why don't you complain about Ikea's catering to the kids with their ball pool?

"no religious jew can get there on foot" ????? Why would religious jews walk? Or do you assume that religious jews don't drive? Who are you and where do you live? A nazi from Germany?

Thank you for your comment. Shanah Tovah!

I can't figure out why any one wants that Swedish crap any way. But now I guess its KOSHER crap.

"When the Bronfman family acquired IKEA, they announced they will also cater to the religious crowd." "Religious crowd" ? This is an abusive turn of phrase. Who do you think you are, Yaron London?

Do you Israelis have any clue about the background of Ikea-owner mr. Kamprad?

will the synagogue be made from a flat pack?

Well done #15 couldn't have put it better myself,

I hope that the quality of product in Israel is better than what Ikea sells in the U.S.

To visit a prayer-room is A MUST before purchasing any items at IKEA!!! Especially when buying any furniture with self-assembling instructions. My daughter-in-law wants a sleeping room with furniture from IKEA - but before I start work I will go on a 80-kilometer pilgrimage - to calm down, pray and ask God for a calm hand and to give me wisdom to understand IKEAS assembling instructions. May God bless any buyer!

If Israel ever becomes "a normal western country" it will both cease to exist and cease to have a reason to exist.

I don't believe in God but I respect the religion. I think we must separed religion and business. It's not the same things. Money..money..money..but where the companies can going for make money?

This shows how can be easy use the relegion to make money out of some stupid people .... like in China made watches to show the Moslems the direction of El Kabaa , Sweden built this in Akea to get more buyers .... i saw once in the TV one Jew praying on the craying wall and had his cell phone on the wall that someone else can pray from far away ... direct i got an idea to stand beside the wall with some cell phones and the people can call me and pray from their homes and will cost 1£ per min. like sex telephon ...lol... good idea don't you think ? ....

The Pope will ask Akea to build a Church inside the shop ....this will be nics and a Mosque too .... and they will call it the Holy Akea ... furneture and relegions meeting point .... LOL

AND I GUESS AN ANTISEMITE IS AN ANTISEMITE........

tiyeh bari