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Women's Prayer Gains

Religious pluralism advocates hail
"victories" for prayer at Kotel.

JULIE WIENER
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

New York
dvocates of religious pluralism in
Israel are hailing what they are
calling two major breakthroughs
in efforts to enable all Jews to pray as
they see fit at Judaism's holiest site.
In a landmark ruling Monday that
caps an 11-year legal battle, Israel's
High Court of Justice recognized the
right of the Women of the Wall orga-
nization to hold women's prayer ser-
vices — using the Torah and with
women wearing prayer shawls — at
Jerusalem's Western Wall.
The court gave the government six
months to make the necessary arrange-
ments for the services and awarded the
women — who are Orthodox,
Conservative and Reform, but use
Orthodox liturgy — $4,800 in damages.
In a separate development, the
Conservative movement reached an
understanding with the Israeli govern-
ment allowing it to hold mixed-gender
prayer services at Robinson's Arch, at
the southern end of the wall.
While officially part of the Kotel, as
the Western Wall of the Temple is
known, the arch has not traditionally
been a site of prayer and is separated
from the main part of the wall by a
ramp leading to the Dome of the
Rock mosque.

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Piling On

New Iranian charges revive fears of execution for Jews.

MICHAEL J. JORDAN
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

New York
he ongoing trial of 13 Iranian
Jews charged with espionage for
Israel took an ominous turn this week
when four of the defendants were also
accused of spying for Iraq.
The four — all prominent religious
figures in the Jewish community —
allegedly spied for Iraq during its
bloody war with Iran from 1980 to
1988, according to two French human
rights lawyers quoted by the French
news agency, AFP.

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For over a decade, Reform and
Conservative Jews and women from a
variety of Jewish streams have fought for
the right to hold services at the wall.
The Kotel has separate sections for
men and women, and efforts to hold
non-Orthodox services or ones led by
women have often led to ejection by
Israeli police and harassment — some-
times violent — by Orthodox worshipers.
"This is a great day for the advance-
ment of the struggle for religious plural-
ism in Israel," the president of Israel's
Conservative movement, Rabbi Ehud
Bandel, said in a statement Monday.
It's a day, he said, when both the Israeli
government and the High Court "accept
the principle that all Jews have the right to
pray at the holiest place of the Jewish
people, according to their traditions."
Activists for the Women of the Wall
in Israel and the United States welcomed
the ruling. The court noted that nothing
in the group's prayer services — in which
women pray separately from men, use
Orthodox liturgy and do not say any
prayers that would require the presence
of a minyan of 10 men — violates
Orthodox interpretation of Jewish law.
Some Orthodox Jews object to the
fact that the women raise their voices in
prayer, contravening the prohibition
against men hearing a woman's voice,
lest he be distracted from his worship.
"We've come out of the Middle
Ages, and we will soon hold the first bat

The two lawyers have been the only
foreigners permitted access — albeit
much restricted — to the court.
The charge came as the last three o f
the 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying
for Israel proclaimed their innocence
in court on Monday. An Iraqi official
called the accusation "stupid."
The charge of spying for Iraq
renews fears that some of the Jews may
face execution, a fear Iranian judiciary
officials tried to dispel last week.
Since the Islamic revolution in Iran
in 1979, 17 Jews have been executed,
many of them for spying.
"It's disturbing because it shows the