BTW I happened to have a conversation recently with one of the co-founders of Women of the Wall. She is a very frum and very learned woman whose late husband was a big talmid chacham. She told me that the original goals of Women of the Wall were “tefillah, talit, and torah”: Women praying at the kotel, wearing a talit, and reading from a sefer torah. She told me that she is not sure from where the more recent emphasis on tefillin came, as it was not one of the original goals of the WOTW group. (She herself wears neither a talit nor tefillin but does participate in a women’s tefillah group.)
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