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Israeli police detained five women on Thursday at the Kosel, for wearing Talleisim.
The incident occurred during a monthly Rosh Chodesh “prayer session” by the Women of the Wall, a group opposed to police-enforced Orthodox controls at the Kosel, where worshippers are segregated in accordance with Halacha.
“Police detained for questioning five women who prayed with religious garments at the Wall … and an ultra-Orthodox man who burnt a book belonging to the Women of the Wall,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
The group’s monthly gatherings at the Kosel often end with arrests of women who don Talleisim.
On Wednesday, officials said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was considering a plan to convert an old archaeological dig south of the Wall to an area where men and women would be allowed to mix and worship freely.
Natan Sharansky, a former Israeli cabinet minister who put together the proposal at Netanyahu’s request, said it would not entail structural damage around al-Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third-holiest site, above the Western Wall.
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I received an e-mail claiming the women misunderstood the Pasuk in Eshes Chayil: Rabos Bonos ossu chayil vehatalit al kulono!
But the ringleader is not even there! She’s in America right now.
What we really need to do is convince the women that they want to daven ON har habayis. Then let them deal with the arabs.
Rabbi Gilad Kariv is a rabbi of movement for REFORM and progressive Judaism, so of course he is disturbed for how the woman are being treated.
Their husbands don’t wear a tallis