Jerusalem – Woman Detained At Kotel For Wearing Tallit
Posted By Psycho On Jun 21, 2012 America, Israel, News
Jerusalem — Police on Thursday detained a woman at the Western Wall for over three hours after she and 65 other women from the Women of the Wall organization had concluded their Rosh Hodesh prayer service. Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben Ruby said that Houben was detained for wearing a men’s tallit, or prayer shawl, [...]
June 24th, 2012 at 12:54 am
The Women of the Wall constantly try to draw media attention and impose their minority very on the overwhelming majority. Besides the tourists, who goes to the Kotel? I’d guess 99% of visits are by Orthodox Jews. So for every 100 Jews, 99 should bend over backwards to accommodate that one Jew? Oh, but if only the Orthodox stronghold were loosened, there would be more visits by Reform, Conservative and other progessives! Come on. Maybe they would up their visits from once a year to three times a year and push their representation up to 3%.