Comments on: The Western Wall Doesn’t Welcome Jews? http://farfromzion.com/archives/273 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:17:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Joel Katz http://farfromzion.com/archives/273/comment-page-1#comment-770 Joel Katz Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:41:14 +0000 http://farfromzion.com/?p=273#comment-770 Check out these 2 photos: Opening the new Women of the Wall Torah scroll at the Kotel: http://twitpic.com/pz4rs Nofrat Frenkel leaving police custody wearing talit holding Torah scroll after being held for two and a half hours: http://twitpic.com/q3eaz Check out these 2 photos:

Opening the new Women of the Wall Torah scroll at the Kotel: http://twitpic.com/pz4rs

Nofrat Frenkel leaving police custody wearing talit holding Torah scroll after being held for two and a half hours: http://twitpic.com/q3eaz

]]> By: Charles http://farfromzion.com/archives/273/comment-page-1#comment-769 Charles Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:51:30 +0000 http://farfromzion.com/?p=273#comment-769 And The Forward has a similar editorial thought worth reading: http://www.forward.com/articles/119183/ "There are ways to make the Kotel welcoming to Jews of differing practices. Writing in our Sisterhood blog, contributing editor Debra Nussbaum Cohen suggested that a third section, for egalitarian worship, be created alongside the ones for men and women. No doubt there are other creative ideas for sharing this sacred space. Unless it is truly shared, those Jews who do not follow ultra-Orthodoxy — that is, most Jews — will feel increasingly unwelcome in what is supposed to be the touchstone of their homeland. That is something an embattled Israel can neither desire nor afford." And The Forward has a similar editorial thought worth reading: http://www.forward.com/articles/119183/
“There are ways to make the Kotel welcoming to Jews of differing practices. Writing in our Sisterhood blog, contributing editor Debra Nussbaum Cohen suggested that a third section, for egalitarian worship, be created alongside the ones for men and women. No doubt there are other creative ideas for sharing this sacred space.

Unless it is truly shared, those Jews who do not follow ultra-Orthodoxy — that is, most Jews — will feel increasingly unwelcome in what is supposed to be the touchstone of their homeland. That is something an embattled Israel can neither desire nor afford.”

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