Sunday, April 21, 2013

Women challenge Orthodox practice at Israel's Western Wall

"The Wall belongs to all of us!" shouted Lesley Sachs, director of the activist group Women of the Wall, as she was led away by police officers, wrapped in a prayer shawl. An ultra-Orthodox heckler shouted:

"Get out of here! Don't desecrate this holy place. It isn't yours!"


MORE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israel-arrests-5-women-challenging-orthodox-practice-at-western-wall/2013/04/11/32a0161c-a2d3-11e2-be47-b44febada3a8_story.html