I Hope You Are Not Hypocritical, Rabbi Wernick

The CEO of The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Rabbi Steven C. Wernick writes:

What’s the big deal about Israeli and Diaspora Jews, including myself, deciding to join with Women of the Wall on Wednesday to exercise our right to pray and read Torah in a women's prayer service at the Western Wall and in a mixed prayer service in the Western Wall plaza?

The big deal is that, as part of the thousands-year journey of the Jewish people, we turn east when we pray, no matter our geography.  Jerusalem, the Kotel and the Temple Mount mean for us what they mean for all Jews – hope.  Hope that tomorrow will be better than today.  Hope that Jewish wandering and persecution will end.  Hope that we will again lihiyot am hofshi b'artzeinu - be a free people in our ancestral homeland.  Hope that redemption will be at hand and the Jewish People will be given an opportunity, through a Jewish state, to practice the ideals, values, belief and traditions that have not only ensured our survival, but have nurtured our thriving.

"Hope"?

But, God forbid, not hoping for the reconstructing of the Temple and revitalizing the Temple service, correct?

And no breaking in to the Temple Mount with Torah scrolls to pray in an egalitarian minyan there, correct?

And no criticism of Islamic fundamentalism in harming Jews who do not pray (due to the status quo restrictions which you do not protest)?

Or do you?

Do you follow this Conservative permission to enter?

Rabbi Wernick, you have learned this in Tractate Sotah, for sure:

אמר לה ינאי מלכא לדביתיה: אל תתיראי מן הפרושין ולא ממי שאינן פרושין אלא מן הצבועין. שדומין לפרושין שמעשיהן כמעשה זמרי ומבקשין שכר כפנחס

King Jannai said to his wife', 'Fear not the Pharisees and those who are not Pharisees but the hypocrites who ape the Pharisees; because their deeds are the deeds of Zimri  but they expect a reward like Pinchas'.

I hope you are not hypocritical.

Jewish identity in an active fashion within the Temple Mount is a civil rights issue, is a lawful one, actually, but is limited by government policy and judicial weakness.

We could use your support: vocal, lobbying.

Or maybe you and your fellow activists would join a break-in with Torah scrolls?

Credit: Women of the Wall Facebook

P.S.

You also wrote:

The Prime Minister asked us to wait.  We've waited 2,000 years for a return to Jerusalem, to the Kotel.  

And?  And to?

And to the Temple Mount.

Even Naomi Shemer wrote that in "Jerusalem of Gold".

And no one frequents the Temple Mount
In the Old City... We have returned...
A (shofar) calls out on the Temple Mount
In the Old City. 

And you added, too:

The Kotel belongs to all of the Jewish people - in all of our diversity.

You can be in all your diversity.  But a national monument, not to mention a religious one, is not altered to fit each and every diversity. Extra space can always be made but why do you demand to alter what has existed for centuries, by people who come daily, every day, every hour, which is, at least as regards the WOWers, once a month for an hour?  Is that a fair demand?  One to act in a direct action way?  And to ignore other Jews' own diversity?


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Who Were Those Jews and What Was That Site?

Jews broke into a religious sacred site today.  Scuffles broke out.

They marched toward the prayer plaza at the holy site with the Torah scrolls to conduct a prayer service and one of the leaders said:-

"We broke through. We made history"

The clashes were unprecedented and the scene was one of pandemonium and unprecedented violence as the Jews broke through security barriers with Torah scrolls in their arms. Moreover, Police stationed at the site did not intervene to stop the violence. Instead, they observed and even filmed the scene.  The breakers-in were met by a Jew who has lobbied against the group's approach to the holy place who pleaded with the protesters to “respect the custom of the place” and not enter with their Torah scrolls. His pleas fell on deaf ears.

One of the leaders of the protest said he and other Jewish leaders were not deterred by the outbreak of violence. “We will not forfeit our right to be here,” he said. “We will change this place, we will change this country and make this a home for all Jewish people.” 

Are you thinking the protesters who shoved their way in were fanatical, extremist, right-wing Jews demanding that the government lift its status quo policy and permit Jewish prayer within the Temple Mount?

Nope.

They were Reform and Conservative Jews demanding the right to egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall Plaza.

Everything is okay when you're not Orthodox or right-wing, right?

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Even the Aguda's Rabbi Avi Shafran noticed this:

The protesters didn’t choose to proudly venture onto the Temple Mount, the most Jewish spot on earth, despite being unfettered by halakhic concerns about ascending the Mount. They seem to recognize the wrongness of trying to “liberate” that holy site, as Reform Rabbi Gilad Kariv described what the protesters had done to the Kotel plaza.

Speaking of the Temple Mount, Reform Rabbi Eric Yoffie, a former leader of his movement, recently invoked the across-the-Jewish-spectrum condemnation of the recent UNESCO resolutions omitting the site’s connection to the Jewish People as requiring the upending of the status quo at the Kotel.  “Surely,” he wrote, “Reform and Conservative Jews, who have joined in the battle against UN Israel bashing, should have the right to pray at the Wall as a recognized community.”

Odd that he misses the irony of his thought.  The idiocy of the UNESCO resolutions was their refusal to acknowledge historical truth. But Rabbi Yoffie and his allies do something similar, glossing over the historical truth that, for centuries, the Temple Mount was where the Jewish people gathered to pray in, yes, “Orthodox” fashion, with men and women separated and with adherence to halakhic norms.

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Jordan: 'Hands Off the Wall Area'

As I foresaw, and which has happened previously:

The Minister of State for Media Affairs, Government Spokesman Dr. Mohammed Al-Momani, denounced Israel's persistent aggressions against the Umayyad palaces area located to the south and southwest of Al Aqsa Mosque / Temple Mount and adjacent to the walls.

The occupation authorities have recently embarked on the settlement of internal disputes among the different Jewish sects at the expense of the Umayyad palaces owned by Islamic Waqf and so decided to expand the platform dedicated to the prayers of emancipated [Reform] Jews in that area.

...Jordanian government is demanding that Israel palm of her hand from the Umayyad palaces area and return it to the original owner, which the Islamic Waqf to manage and maintain them properly.

Can't wait for the response of the WOWers. 

And that of Prime Minister Netanyahu.


(h/t=YE)


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JTA report.

And a 1928 report (second item) of Arab leaders telling Jews they have no say at what goes on at the Kotel after complaints the Waqf was adding rows on top of the Kotel:

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Southern Western Wall Separation Oddity

Besides the opposition of archaelogists and the Muslim Waqf, the setting aside of the southern section of the Western Wall perplexes me as per point 2 of the agreement:

In the southern section, prayers will be conducted in accordance with the pluralistic and egalitarian custom in a manner that will provide a satisfactory solution for worshippers from the various non-Orthodox denominations, first and foremost the Reform and Conservative movements. In general, it is in this plaza that men and women will pray without separation. At the same time, and taking into account the pluralistic character of this section, Women of the Wall, whose unwavering struggle to pray in accordance with their beliefs in the Western Wall Plaza has lasted more than 25 years*, will have the option to hold separate prayers for women in the section every Rosh Hodesh and on Ta'anit Esther, and at other times for which the supervisor of the southern section will provide specific permission, in accordance with the opinion of the Southern Section Council. 

So, if I understand this correctly, not only have the WOWers beaten the Chief Rabbinate Orthodoxy but they get another advantage in that they can also tell off the supervisory Council of the Southern Section and conduct prayers however they like - specifically what they consider "Orthodox" -  even if different than those regularly conducted there.

Now, you might say that those of the original WOW group, who were Orthodox, who had their struggle 'stolen' from them by Anat Hoffman and cohorts, still have a claim to be able to conduct an Orthodox service in the Northen Section women's area.  That may well be. 

But the compromise reached leaves the Chief Rabbinate in charge of the Northern Section, on the one hand, and leaves WOW in charge of a certain form of a women's service in the Southern Section even if, theoretically, the Council of the Southern Section would oppose it, like, immodest dress (not that I could see that happening) or very loud singing and dervish-like dancing (which I could see).

Is the the egalitarian way?

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UPDATE  

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Twenty-five years versus five centuries of custom:

While the Wailing Wall today is universally acclaimed as Judaism’s most sacredmonument, its centrality to the religion is not as ancient as is commonly thought.We know from pilgrims and travellers in the fifteenth century that it was not theWailing Wall, but the Mount of Olives outside the Old City that was dedicated oncea year to the commemoration of the destruction of the Temple.3

The Wailing Wall area - a narrow courtyard (120 square meters) in front of the Wall enclaved within the fourteenth century Muslim Moroccan Quarter - was defined and set apart only during the reign of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in the sixteenth century.

F.E. Peters, in his comprehensive collection of travellers’ and pilgrims’ documentsconcerning Jerusalem, observes that only from the early years of that century didJewish visitors describe the Wailing Wall and connect it with the earlier tradition ofthe ‘Presence of God.’4

Even the ‘official’ history of the Wall published by the Israeli defence ministry in the early 1980s, while noting that “literary reports of travellers and pilgrims, particularly in the last centuries, are full of descriptions of the Western Wall,” added that “it should, however, be pointed out that for hundreds of years, during nearly the whole of the Middle Ages, there is hardly any reference to the Wall.”5

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Cf. Rabbi Meshulam Da Volterra, 1481, letter of the Italian Jewish pilgrim, in J. Nom de Deu, Relatos de Viajes y Epistolas de Peregrinos Judíos a Jerusalén (USA, Madrid, 1987), 82: 
“And all the community of Jews, every year, goes up to Mount Zion on the day of Tisha Be-’Av to fast and mourn, and from there they move down along Yoshafat Valley and up to Mount of Olives. From there they see the whole Temple (the Temple Mount) and there they weep and lament the destruction of this house.” (My translation - emphasis added).
4
 F. E. Peters, Jerusalem (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1985), 528.
5
 M. Ben Dov and Z. Aner, The Western Wall (Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defence Publishing House, 1983), 65



and this from "When Did Jews Begin to Pray at the Western Wall?" Dan Bahat, Eretz-Israel: Archaeological, Historical and Geographical Studies /ארץ-ישראל: מחקרים בידיעת הארץ ועתיקותיה
Vol. כח‎, TEDDY KOLLEK VOLUME:

AbstractThe study of new documents from the Cairo Geniza, the exposure of the entire length of the Western Wall by tunneling, and the study of the prayer section of the Wall, provides us with information for the study of Jewish prayer rituals at the walls of the Temple Mount. Until the Crusader period, we know that Jews prayed around the four walls of the Temple Mount. After the recovery of the Jewish community in Jerusalem following Crusader rule over the city, the Western Wall was covered by Muslim buildings, and most of it remains so to this day. Prayer was therefore not possible there until 1546, when the buildings covering the section known today as the Western Wall Prayer Plaza were destroyed by an earthquake. Thus, only in the sixteenth century did people begin to arrive at the area of the present-day Western Wall Prayer Plaza for individual prayer. There is, however, no evidence for communal prayer becoming common there until the beginning of the seventeenth century, at the earliest.

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I Love the 'Women of the Wall'

Not the women, as in females.

The orgamization.

Why?

Well, for years i've claimed wherever they go, I follow.  They to the Wsetern Wall, I to the Temple Mount.

Whatever they gain, I want.

Whatever they gain, I deserve.

And now:

Women of the Wall sneak in Torah and read from it during bat mitzvah at Western Wall 

Quick, bring me a Sefer Torah and we'll ascend.

And all the WOW sympathizers and backers, liberal as they are, will all support my Temple Mount efforts.

Anat, where art thou?

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Mixed Prayer at The Kotel

I am sure that you, like me, have seen photographs from early in the 20th century, if not earlier, showing how men and women, even without the separation partition, aka Mechitza, were standing at the Kotel in a two distinct groups. This is, it is claimed, proof that prayer at that site was not as the custom of the Women of the Wall.

Now, on the one hand, my position is that the Women of the Wall should be allowed to practice worship customs at the Kotel, as long as (a) they do not make too much distracting noise and (b) they are dressed modestly (we do not need a repeat of the 1756 Lanckoronie Affair).  On the other, I think it irrational that a court in Israel would declare a custom of 20 years, observed but once a month for an hour, to override a custom of many hundreds of years 24 hours a day daily.

In any case, look at this picture:

Men to one corner.  

Then two women.

And then another man.

Yes, they are all posing for the photographer but nevertheless, even pictures cannot be trusted.

Or perhaps there really was relatively mixed prayer at the Western Wall.  And yes, I know that the Women of the Wall do not prayer men and women together as one quorum group, except when in the vack of the main Plaza area.

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Another 2000 Year Claim

A report:-

(JTA) – Ten longtime members of Women of the Wall are protesting the organization’s agreement to meet at Robinson’s Arch if certain conditions are met.
In a public statement Friday, the protesting members said the Women of the Wall board betrayed the group’s fundamental mission with its decision earlier in the week.
“We remain committed to the Kotel, the place sanctified by the memory, prayers, and hopes of Jews for 2,000 years,” read the statement, using the wall’s Hebrew name. “We remain unalterably committed to the right of all Jewish women to pray together in the ezrat nashim [women’s section] at the Kotel with tallit and tefillin, reading from the Torah scroll.”

What 2,000 years?

According to Yehuda Yitzhak Yechezkel in Zion, 3, 1929, the Western Wall only became a site of regular prayer in the 9th century CE, some 1150 years ago.  Before that, Jews came to all the other walls, to the Mount of Olives and also to the Temple Mount.  (Another contribution of his to the subject)ץ

In the 14th century, Ashtori Ha-Farhi does not specifically mention the Western Wall but rather notes that Jews attempted to approach any of the walls to pray although evidence from the Cairo Genizah notes an 11th century prayer at the Western Wall.

Ladies, your devotion is admirable but let's get the historical facts straight.

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Professorial Professor Cohen

I left this comment:

ah, the moral high ground of self-righteousness.  the Muslims came to Jerusalem, destroyed the Christian structures there, prevented Jews from entering and killing a few who accidentally stumbled inside (here) and that's moral and ethical enough to prevent Aryeh from going to the Kotel because houses, excuse me, slums, underwent urban renewal, houses from which rocks, bombs and exrcement were thrown at Jews during the Mandate period.

and this additional comment

and this - "WoW has become an unwitting ally of some strange bedfellows — those in the movement to rebuild the Temple. WoW recently posted a piece...on their website that advocated for equal access for everybody (Jews and Muslims) to pray on the Temple Mount and equal access for everybody (male and female Jews) to pray at the Kotel".  Wow!  So a law on the books that protects freedom of access & worship is to be denied by Cohen because - er, why?  Only liberal progressives can benefit?  No obscurantist Muslim Waqf can be told that they must adopt democratic ideals!  God forbid!  No religious cooperation.  No coexistence.  No pluralism.  No.  That is so professorial.

at this post

'Why I cannot stand with Women of the Wall'

Nothing in Israel, or in the Middle East, is disconnected from anything else. Yet the issue of women’s religious access to the Kotel is treated, especially in North America, as if it exists in a vacuum.

By Aryeh Cohen

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So, The Mechitza Is At Fault

I left this comment here, at Sh'ma:

An admirable treatment but, nevertheless, lacking.

a) to write 'The Western Wall is widely held to be the “most sacred place in the world to the Jewish people,”' without attempting to correct that is odd.  It might be so "held" but the least could have been a notation that the Wall has no intrinsic sanctity in and of itself except by virtue of it being s a retaining wall of the Temple Mount.

And that is relevant to the Women of the Wall issue for if the Wall was truly sacred, what difference would it make to the ladies to be a 100 meters south of the Plaza?  There is the "Little Wall" to the north, next to the Iron Gate, where prayers are conducted.  If the ladies are seeking closeness, is the Plaza the venue or the Wall?  They want to be in the "synagogue" or talk to God?

b) to award the element of "centrality" of the Kotel to Christian visitors when, at least from 14th century, and perhaps earlier, Jews had been praying there and prior to that, during the Geonic and Karaite era, when the Western Wall was off-limits, the Eastern Wall was the location for supplications and circumventing the gates, is odd.  But, still, the Temple Mount is central.  Jews attempted to ascend to the Temple Mount after the Temple's destruction (as Akiba's story attests; Makkot 24B and other external to Jewish sources, including Maimonides visit in 1166), and in the 19th century, the Hatam Sofer, Akiva Eiger, Yehudah Alkalai and Zvi Kalischer discussed the matter of renewing at least the Paschal Sacrifice and Montefiore and later Baron Rothschild visited the Temple Mount, after the Kotel, in the second half of the 19th century.   Oh, and check Herzl's Altneuland where the rebuilt Temple is mentioned.

c)  Correctly, it is noted that "The Wall had not merely been adopted; it had been transformed into an entirely new symbol, redolent with new meanings and a new sacredness" after World War I.  That, of course, was mainly due to the inability of Jews to develop the sacredness of the Temple, due to Halachic restrictions but also to Ottoman practice of disallowing entrance of any non-Muslim.  Look what has happened after 1967 when freedom of access, relatively speaking, was resumed.  But worthy of mention should have been the fact that the event that sent all spiraling was in 1928 when on  September 24, 1928, on Yom Kippur, the mechitza, which had been temporarily up for the two days of the previous Rosh Hashana and had been removed during the midweek, was put up for the fast day by the Admor of Radziman, Aharon Menachem Mendel Gutterman.  The mechitza - then the "culprit" and today as well?

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New Feminist Issue to Champion

Found at this Muslim students' site in Germany:

Not even "behind-the-mechitza" status?

Different times altogether?

Is this a feminist cause to be championed?

Ladies?  Women?  Sisters?

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Can't Wait for June 9th

What's so intriguing about Sunday, June 9th?

It's Rosh Chodesh.

The first day of the new Hebrew month of Tammuz

Another activity day for the Women of the Wall.   A report.

P.S.


The legal basis up until last month for prohibiting the women from praying, or wearing tallitot or putting on tefillin or reading the Torah was that

in 1990, the Ministry of Religious Affairs intervened and put up a new decree (2(A1)) to the regulations of the Western Wall – “Within the holy places there will be no religious ceremony that is not in accordance to the traditions of the place, which hurts the feelings of the praying public towards the place”.

I wonder what  the "traditions of the place" or, more properly, "local custom", are for the Temple Mount?

For almost a thousand years, they were sacrifices by Jews.

Food for thought.

Consider how the Court viewed the matter.

Whereas in 1994,

Deputy Chief Justice Elon believed that notwithstanding the fact that the manner in which the Women of the Wall pray is not formally in opposition to Orthodox Jewish law, it conflicts with the matter of prayer in an Orthodox synagogue and as such, it is in opposition to local custom, because “‘local custom’ and the status quo are one and the same “ (HCJ I, p. 344). Justice S. Levin did not agree; he stated (on p. 357) as follows: “As I see it, the phrase ‘local custom’ should not necessarily be interpreted according to Jewish law or according to the status quo. The nature of a custom is that it changes according to the changing times, and [the phrase] should express a pluralistic and tolerant approach to the opinions and customs of others, subject to those reservations which I have already mentioned above.”

…Chief Justice Shamgar also recognized the right of the Women of the Wall to pray in the [Western] Wall plaza according to their custom, and their custom should not be viewed as offensive to the local custom. 

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Justice (Emeritus) Englard, who disagreed with the minority opinion in the Hoffman Additional Hearing, also noted that the statement by Justice S. Levin in Hoffman HCJ I with respect to the pluralistic – secular - national interpretation which should be given to the expression “local custom” is “the interpretive approach which has been accepted by this Court” (Hoffman Additional Hearing, pp. 333-335). The aforesaid interpretation of the expression “local custom” is sufficient reason to state that there is no reasonable suspicion that the Respondents violated the prohibition set forth in the Holy Sites Regulations, one of the necessary components of which is “the performance of a religious ceremony other than in accordance with local custom”

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The NYTimes Abreast of the Women of the Kotel Wall

So, exactly what's happening?




And

Ricky Bendavid ‏@rbendavid 7m

Crowd throwing objects and candy at @Womenofthewall praying in plaza.

Is that the "custom" at the Wall?  To throw things?


And who does the JPost have covering this female story?

Thousands of haredim protest Women of Wall prayer

By JEREMY SHARON, JPOST.COM STAFF

05/10/2013 07:08

Police separating protesters from activists; 1 youth detained.

A male?

I guess that mechitza partition is kinda, well, .... 

And Haaretz uses polite, non-abusatory language:

Haaretz.com ‏@haaretzcom 2h

BREAKING: Western Wall swarming with ultra-#Orthodox protestors, making it difficult for #WomenoftheWall to approach http://htz.li/YJ6KVw

"Swarming"?  Like, er, insects or vermin?

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UPDATE from Facebook:

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When Provocations Are Bad

In Haaretz, we read that

Women of the Wall hope to avoid showdown at historic Kotel prayer service

Anticipating jeers and leers from ultra-Orthodox protesters during first prayer service after key court decision, group championing fight for equality at Western Wall urge supporters not to engage in conflict - verbal or otherwise.

...Ultra-Orthodox protesters have made a practice in recent months of taunting the women as they approach the Western Wall plaza on their way to the women’s section and jeering loudly at them during their prayer service from across the barrier separating the men and women’s sections.

This Ultra-Orthodox practice is rightly condemned.

And the answer is to fight back through the courts until the WOTW achieve full religious freedom, no matter how bad the Ultra-Orthodox feel.

So, on the Temple Mount, when Muslims riots and go violent, the first thing is for the Jews to 'back off, run away, don't even contemplate going there, forget about human rigths and the law guaranteeing prayer and access'.

Topsy-turvy.

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Women Between A Wall and a High Place

From Gonen Ginat's op-ed:

Banging their heads against the Wall                                                           

When the city of Jerusalem decided to operate its Karta parking lot on Shabbat, the ultra-Orthodox warned, "Jerusalem will burn," and "we will make the whole country shake" and "we will run the secular Jerusalemites out of the city." But Mayor Nir Barkat didn't give in. Ever since then, the Karta parking lot opens every Shabbat. 

These threats were also heard when a high-tech plant in Har Hotzvim (an industrial park located in northwest Jerusalem) started working on Shabbat. It, too, is still intact, and still working every Shabbat.

So this reputation that the haredim have — that they win every battle they enter — is simply unfounded. The truth is that they lose battle after battle.

...it was important to allow every Israeli to visit the capital city, even on Shabbat.
 

This should have been the dominant consideration in the context of the Women of the Wall as well...the clashes that surrounded the women's monthly visit to the Wall were completely unnecessary. Let them come as often as they wish. Let them feel at home.

The problem with the Women of the Wall is completely different. Once upon a time, they petitioned the High Court of Justice to permit them to pray at the Wall legally. The judges provided a ruling, dictating who would pray, where and how...But the women insist on praying in the area where the court ruled to uphold the old order. That is when the police step in.

...Is it just an oversight that all the countless reports of clashes surrounding the Women of the Wall neglect to mention that they are in fact violating a High Court ruling? Could it be that this piece of information is habitually omitted because if the entire truth was reported, the Women of the Wall would be portrayed as what they actually are — law breakers? Disrespectful of the court? Is it because they simply won't appear as enlightened anymore?...Do they expect the Israel Police to disregard a High Court ruling? Because if they do, they should say so explicitly.
 

And here is where we arrive at the real question: What do we do when we realize that the law-abiding citizens are actually the ones with the kippot and the beards, and the ones intentionally trying to break the law are the liberal camp (or women in this case)?
 

...The debate over the freedom to pray at a holy site has also cropped up again recently a few feet from the Western Wall, at the Temple Mount. There, it is actually the police who violate the High Court ruling that permits Jews to pray at the site. Police prevent Jews who are mumbling verses or whispering from entering the compound. The police have an excuse: When Jews pray on Temple Mount it could spark riots.
 

That's an interesting explanation. But under the same logic, the Women of the Wall shouldn't even be permitted in the vicinity of the Western Wall, because it could prompt the haredim to riot. But still, there is one major difference: The Women of the Wall are violating a court ruling, while Jews who want to pray on the Temple Mount are actually the ones abiding by the law...

 

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Tits and Balls With Sarah Silverman

The Guardian's Harriet Sherwood's factual and reliable reporting:-

Thousands of Jews pray every day at the Western Wall, the last remnant of the retaining wall of the Temple Mount, pushing scraps of paper bearing handwritten prayers into the cracks between its ancient golden stones. Men and women are forbidden from praying together; a small section of the wall is cordoned off for women.

The site, known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, is also revered in the Islamic faith and is the home of the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa mosque.

Well, since that's in an article about the Women of the Wall, too bad she didn't mention the Islamic prohibition on Jews praying at Judaism's most sacred site, the Temple Mount.

She could have at least noted that Jews on the Temple Mount are worse off than women at the Kotel.


P.S.  Sarah Silverman's tweet was this:

@SarahKSilverman

SO proud of my amazing sister @rabbisusan & niece @purplelettuce95 for their ballsout civil disobedience. Ur the tits!#womenofthewall
 

which prompted me to write

‏@ymedad

so that's the "Woman with the Balls with the Women of the Wall"?

P.P.S.

To be clear, I support in principle the aims of WOW.  I only hope that any gain they achieve will assist my rights on the Temple Mount (see p. 9-10 here). 

 

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