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Thousands of ultra-Orthodox protesting Women of the Wall prayer service in Jerusalem
- Published_at:2013-05-10
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:elimand1
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- description: There were thousands of hareidi-religious women at the Kotel to show their support for maintaining traditional Jewish practice at the wall. Leading hareidi-religious rabbi Rabbi Aharon Leib Steinman had called on young men and women to gather at the Kotel on Friday. The Women for the Wall organization, a Jewish women's group which supports keeping the Kotel a place for traditional Jewish prayer, had backed the gathering as well. Both Rabbi Steinman and Women for the Wall had emphasized the need for worshipers to remain calm and avoid conflict with WoW. Members of Women of the Wall hold public all-female Torah readings and often wear tallit and tefillin, practices which are technically permissible under Jewish law (halakhah) but which are not traditionally observed by orthodox Jewish women. Many orthodox women have complained that they find the group's prayers distracting. For years WoW was given a separate prayer space at Robinson's Arch, which is part of the same wall around the Temple Mount which the Kotel belongs to, thus allowing the group to hold its prayers near the Temple Mount while maintaining the women's prayer section at the Kotel as a place for traditional silent prayer. Robinson's Arch is to be the future site of mixed male-female prayer gatherings and WoW prayers as well, but only after renovation. MK Miri Regev, head of the Knesset's Interior Committee, was at the Kotel to observe the implementation of the court order first hand. She called for all present to respect the Attorney General's decision to support WoW's one-time observance. "Tensions are high and there have been upsetting occurrences," MK Regev reported from the Kotel. MK Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan (Bayit Yehudi) said, "King David purchased Jerusalem, with money from the entire nation of Israel, so that every Jew would have an equal share in Jerusalem, and of course at the Western Wall. We all have to make an effort to reach a compromise, so that we do not increase conflict at this holy site."
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