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U.S. Women
Attacked At Wall
Jerusalem (JTA) — A group
of American Hadassah board
members was stoned by
some Orthodox worshipers
after trying to pray at the
Western Wall with a Torah
and later were escorted
away by police.
The women decided to go
to the Wall last week, the
day after the Supreme Court
rejected a petition by an
Israeli women's group seek-
ing to pray aloud at the Wall
with a Torah and prayer
shawls.
The Hadassah women said
they had not heard about the
court decision. One of them
wore a prayer shawl and a
yarmulke, while a Torah
they brought stayed
wrapped in a prayer shawl
on a table, said Barbara
Goldstein, a vice president of
Hadassah.
According to Ms. Golds-
tein, some of the ardently
Orthodox women at the Wall
began throwing stones and
dirt and spitting at the
Hadassah women, while
both men and women cursed
them. Ultimately, the wo-
men were led away by police
and guards from the Re-
ligious Affairs Ministry.
Ze'ev Rosenberg, director
general of the Ministry of
Religious Affairs, first
charged the women were in
"contempt of court." But
when told the women said
they had not heard of the
court's decision, he was sur-
prised and referred to their
action as a mistake.
The Hadassah "women
can pray there, but they
must pray according to the
rules and customs" at the
Wall, he said.
Those customs call for
women to pray silently in
the women's section,
without prayer shawls or
Torah.
"If they want to do it at
home, no one will say
anything," said Mr.
Rosenberg. "But this is not
the way to behave" in a
place where "99 percent of
the Jews come" to pray in a
traditional way.
"Everyone understands,
even non-Jews," he said,
"that all men need a kipah
(yarmulke)" to pray in the
men's section, even though
Reform Jews don't wear
them in their synagogues.
Meanwhile, said Ms.
Goldstein, "we were looking
for a spiritual experience
and had no idea the court
had issued anything."
She called it a "crazy
thing" to come to Israel and
be barred "from fulfilling
the very thing you come to
fulfill the highest expression
of Judaism."
"I may understand it, but
that doesn't excuse it," said
Ms. Goldstein.
She said the issue will be
taken up by the board of
Hadassah, which includes
women from all streams of
Judaism and is based on re-
ligious pluralism. She said it
was likely the organization
would move to forge closer
ties with Israeli women's
groups.
Deputy Foreign Minister
Yossi Beilin told the group
that he regretted the inci-
The issue will be
taken up by the
board of Hadassah,
which is based on
plaralism.
dent. He said the govern-
ment has long focused ex-
clusively on national securi-
ty and not paid enough at-
tention to important social
issues such as pluralism and
tolerance.
Meanwhile, in its ruling,
the Supreme Court called on
the government to establish
a commission to investigate
ways to balance freedom of
access to the Wall with the
sensitivities of all wor-
shipers.
Youth Throws
Coat At Rabin
Jerusalem (JTA) — A 17-
year-old youth was arrested
after he tried to throw a coat
at Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin during a speaking
engagement here.
The attempted coat-hurler
was released on 500 shekels
bond, about $170.
The youth, from the set-
tlement of Neve Tzuf, north
of the West Bank town of
Ramallah, reportedly refus-
ed to cooperate with police.
Mr. Rabin was interrupted
several times during his
speech by anti-government
protesters, who called him a
traitor and shouted that he
should resign. ❑