Western Wall: Jewish women clash over prayer rights

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Western Wall: Jewish women clash over prayer rights

8 March 2019

Thousands of young ultra-Orthodox Jews have clashed with a liberal Jewish women's group at one of Judaism's holiest sites, the Western Wall, in Jerusalem.

Dozens of members of the Women of the Wall group, who are seeking equal prayer rights, had to be escorted away by police.

Protesters, many of them women, responded to calls from ultra-Orthodox rabbis to disrupt the group's 30th anniversary service, media reports say.

A number of people were reportedly injured in the incident.

The Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City - a relic of the Biblical Temple compound - currently has separate sections where men and women are allowed to pray.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-47496456

[Cartoonist]

1. Who's intolerant here?

Certainly not the Chinese.

[MineralMan]

2. But...but...some of those women are menstruating, no doubt.

Unclean! Unclean!

Bronze Age prejudices against women brought forward into the 21st Century.

[Act_of_Reparation]

3. Maybe someone should tell these Rabbis they're religioning wrong.

Some guy on the internet said if you read the Bible the right way you realize all those misogynistic passages are just metaphors for a really groovy avacado spread.