Women Should Be Free to Pray at the Wailing Wall
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March 16, 2013
Update: This week several women MK's (members of the Knesset) joined the women praying at the wall. Due to their presence, the police refrained from arresting anyone. Also, we can hope that with the new government the laws regarding prayer at the holy places will be changed to give these women relief. What has been happening regularly is that although women customarily pray at the wall, in the designated area, these women did not wish to pray silently as is expected of their gender, but to make a joyful noise! The men on the other side of the fence do it all the time, dancing and singing with Torah scrolls in arm, but the Orthodox authorities did not approve of the women doing it, and the police did their bidding, arresting the women worshippers. PETITION We support the rights of Jewish women to pray at the Western Wall in the manner they choose, and we are outraged that they are being arrested for praying in an enthusiastic manner that would not draw any notice if they were men. We affirm that God wants to hear their prayers. |
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Karen M. Rogers
Mary Hapeman Takeko Hose Beverly Berndt Chizuko Aoki Anne Kobayashi Elisa Hack Ken Morgan Jennifer Fleischmann Jean Augustin Ghomsi Markus Thonett Diane Kung Sarah Nishioka Joel Lindstrom Peter Dean Nordquist Mark James Tobkin Lucy Borer Paul Rotondo Kaeleigh Moffitt Danwere Sou Richard Fairbrother Tessa Thonett Kerry Pobanz Ten-Seng Guh Irma Mas Theo Wilson Dan Fefferman Mike Yurechko Tony Scazzero Josephine Hamad Louise Strait Jennifer Tanabe Jesus Montenegro Neil Rischl Dietmar Wilhelmer Ian Sanders Bruce Biggin Magdalena Bolandini-Stucki Annaliese Weber Jeana Penna Shimon Veg Tartowski Emanuela Colonna Tali Ilan Mavji Gol Makoto Kinoshita Rebekah Reyes Andrew Wilson |
Andre Haring
Luonne Abram Rouse Peter W. Spoto Clare Yasutake Glenda Lopez Davila Grace Selover Steve Stacey Debra Grodner Kaarina Jager Milos Klas Leslie Olivas Christian Nseka Elena Bahian Erin Bouma Lee Titus Anna Reynolds Elizabeth B. De Jong Svetlana Peneva Jacqueline Aber Sou Mike Perkins Ashley P. Crosthwaite Anne Pickard Annette Scallan Tiffany Bick Maria Lehr Jose Barata Sunny Bangar Delores Read Enrica Malatesta Becky Mustoe Shannon Sweeney Gino Rigucci Marsha Levine Dulce Matos Reka Balog Teresa Blount Lolo Somemoto Ghita Bogdan Alric Burke Pam Niles Sylvie Manley Erwin Kroon Sharon Lampert Seija Eck Lise Marie Parks Anne Solva-Ducardonnoy Rijakumar Eligedi |