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…An Orthodox Jew heckles women as they pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's old city on June 4: Dozens of Jewish women, some draped in prayer shawls, prayed out loud at the Western Wall Photos by AP/Elizabeth Dalziel Womens prayer groups at the Western Wall continue to create R JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR Special to the Jewish News abbi Debrah Cohen barely remembers her first visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem. She was 15, on a trip with h...…
…Orthodox Jewish women heckle women as they pray at the Western Wall on June 4_ Women were Priging in defiance of the initial passage of a bill in the parliament that would sentence women who pmy • o loud or wear typitally men's rekffious attiir at thePoly site to seven year in jag tension among Jews as Israel Supreme Court deliberates. fudge Eliahu Matza wrote in his majority opinion. But the struggle did not end there. Israeli lawmakers swi...…
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