Police Arrest 10 Women of the Wall as Liberating Paratroopers Watch
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Anat Hoffman (R.) and Lesley Sachs with the paratroopers who liberated the Kotel.
Photo Credit: Michal Fattal / WOW
Police said they arrested for “endangering public peace” 10 women who took part in a Rosh Chodesh (first day of the new month) prayer service at the Western Wall.
The women were taken in for questioning. They are members of the Women of the Kotel organization who demand to be allowed to conduct prayer services at the Kotel.
This time, the 300 or so women were accompanied by just under 10 of the very IDF paratroopers who liberated the Kotel in 1967, and who told the press they had sacrificed to make the holy site available to all Jews, not just to a certain segment of the nation.
Police behavior was a bit more restrained this time around, as they waited patiently until the women were done praying before taking them in. But Shira Pruce, Director of Public Relations for WOW, told The Jewish Press that police behavior was “sneaky,” or at least confusing, seeing as they arrested the women after they had already cleared the area.
Unlike the cops, Orthodox Jewish men did not respond at all to the praying women. In the past the women’s service tended to provoke the more Haredi congregants in the men’s section. This despite the fact that several women were wrapped in prayer shawls.
“Remarkably, today’s t’filah was beautiful and peaceful,” said Pruce. “Maybe a few Haredi women walked by and called us names. But the police told them to keep walking. With that tiny exception, it was so peaceful, it didn’t bother anyone. No one was upset.”
Pruce told The Jewish Press she and her fellow congregants made no attempt to tone down their prayers. “We sang, we danced—when we women get together for prayer, we ‘milk’ it, we enjoy it.”
tell a friendAbout the Author: JewishPress.com Senior Internet Editor Yori Yanover has been a working journalist since age 17, before he enlisted and worked for Ba'Machane Nachal. Since then he has worked for Israel Shelanu, the US supplement of Yedioth, JCN18.com, USAJewish.com, Lubavitch News Service, Arutz 7 (as DJ on the high seas), and the Grand Street News. He has published two fun books: The Cabalist's Daughter: A Novel of Practical Messianic Redemption, and How Would God REALLY Vote.
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End the power of the Haredi cult.
let the real heart worship be in this holy site of Kotel..these women are the prophetic gesture to end the cult of haredim…
the greatest Sage of all time – Moses Maimonides, the Rambam.
– explicitly permits women to wear the Talit. One would think that the.
case was closed – but think again…
My husband And i support You,
THOSE WOMAN ARE A BUNCH OF LOSERS!
Those women, like you, are entitled to their views. I doubt that they would say degrading things about you because you don't agree with them. I know two of them quite well, and they are terrific, successful people.
why would women milk prayers for all they are worth? Isn't there suppose to be reverence in prayers said as we are appearing before G-d's throne of mercy.
I agree with you.
Considering the Jewish Press just featured a Jewish feminist who quit the movement upon realizing it is an anti-semitic front, I suspect these girls as frauds as well. That "milk it" comment gave it away. They no more care about the sanctity of the Torah, respecting the rebbes, or for that matter, their fellow Jew. Rubbing your "prayers" in another Jews face can hardly be construed as worship. And like cancer, they intend to dismantle and mock the Torah from within. Beware liberals. They are corrosive and deceptive.
these women are modern HADASSAH of our times..
It figures – the women got what they wanted and now won't support anyone else's efforts. How typically selfish of groups like this. To them it's not about unity.
How did they not support anyone else's efforts?
When asked if they would support prayer on the Temple Mount, they said no.
losers..? and what do you call to a man who never follow the Torah..? in torah it says .."love your neighbor as yourself.."