Israeli police with metal barriers and human chains on Friday May 10 2013 held back hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men and women trying to prevent a liberal Jewish women’s group from praying at the Kotel.
the first time police have come down on the side of the women and not the protesters. The switch followed a court order backing the right of the women to pray at the Western Wall in the Old City with practices Orthodox Jews insist are the role of men alone. The “Women of the Wall” group has been holding monthly prayer services on the first day of the Hebrew month at the Western Wall in Jerusalem for more than two decades, wearing prayer shawls and performing religious rituals reserved for men under Orthodox Judaism. Accused by ultra-Orthodox leaders of violating “local custom” at the holy site, many members have been arrested.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
what a shame near one of the holiest place in the world what will the gentiles say about us now .....at the house of the lord
Post a Comment