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As participants of the Women of the Wall group made their way to the Kotel for their monthly rosh chodesh “prayers”, they found that there were already thousands of girls praying at the Kotel in a proper fashion in accordance with the Torah giants of the generation. The police therefore cornered the group off near the entrance of the Kotel Plaza away from the actual wall in order to avoid confrontation, as opposed to last month when they gave full access to the group and kept out most of the regular worshipers.
In desperate need of media attention, the leaders of the group, with their tefillin askew, proceeded to make their “prayer ceremony” as loud as ostentatious possible, to the point where even some of their supporters were forced to admit that there was more book-waving for the cameras and singing involved than actual prayer and that the thousands of girls praying peacefully at the wall deserved some respect. One of the leaders even went as far as to seek out confrontation with a group of charedi boys on the other side of the police barrier who until then were singing.
The group once again departed on three special buses provided by Egged under police protection, causing a massive traffic bottleneck in the area. The Rabbi of the Kotel, Rabbi Rabinowitz, and Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Pindrus arrived at the scene following the group’s departure to make a statement, as proponents from both camps debated the issues.
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(Fievel Katz – YWN Israel)
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7 Responses
A tremendous kiddush Hashem.
The WoW reform women have only recently started their feminist shtik by coming with tefillin and singing and reading from the Torah very loud disturbing women and men from praying. It’s not as if they can go unnoticed, doing their thing and that’s it. They come as provocateurs and attention seekers and should be banned from going to the Kotel altogether.
What a kiddush Hashem!!!
It’s a shame some of these boys son’t know how to answer.
I wish I could be there. I would set up a booth for questions…
Publicity is addictive and the WOW are hooked.
I wonder if their religious zeal includes observing the
Shabbos, Kashrut and praying 3 times a day. If not. then they are simply pests who need to grow up and stop acting lack rebellious adolescents.
In the first sentence of this article, the author puts “prayers” in quotation marks, clearly implying that there is something not genuine or not halachic about the “prayers” being recited. The article fails to disclose the content of the “prayers” or otherwise explain why there is something unauthentic about the “prayers.” If the reporter considers the “prayers” not to be prayers, he ought to include some information on the text of the “prayers” to show the reader the basis for the author’s opinion that the “prayers” are not genuine prayers.
The reporter also says, in the second paragraph, that the tefillin worn by the leaders of the Women of the Wall were “askew”. This clearly implies that there is a right way for a woman to wear tefillin.
No. 4: Where in Torah does it say that if a Jew does not keep Shabbos, observe Kashrus and daven thrice/day, that Jew is not entitled to daven at the Kosel?
of course not they dont observe taharas mishpach dont wear tzittes underneath do not bench mezimon(ladies supposed to bench mezimen..they dont bentch all togethe) but then u cant make a statement. thier tachlis is to masis umadiach as they said explicitly