New York – The JTA is reporting that Women of the Wall has launched a global campaign to support their right to pray with Torah scrolls at the Western Wall.
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The Jerusalem-based group wants 10,000 Jewish women around the world to send photos of themselves holding Torah scrolls to key Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky. The campaign is to show that Jewish women are free to hold Torah scrolls everywhere except at the Wall, Judaism’s most holy site.
The campaign was inspired by the July 12 arrest of the group’s leader, Anat Hoffman, who was taken into custody for holding a Torah scroll at the Wall. An Israeli Supreme Court ruling forbids women reading from a Torah scroll at the site.
The photos are being sent with a message that reads, in part:
“Women of the Wall are not alone. Our daughters and our rabbis, our mothers and our grandmothers, our cantors and our teachers hold the Torah, read from the Torah, and study the Torah every day … Only in Jerusalem do women pray with fear and only in Jerusalem are women treated as criminals for practicing Judaism
Looking at the photo above, these women must be Democrats because they’re sooooooo ugly!
It seems that there are a bunch of women with lots of time on their hands……….
Women of the Wall? Hey Wallnuts, GET A LIFE!
A global campaign to get these women and their sypathizers would be better received in Shemayim than their current campaign. I know a Brooklyn woman involved in this movement and unfortunately , feminism guides her more than halacha and she can not be reasoned with.
I’m sure you’re a real prize. Too bad Hashem created them the same way as you-whatever happened to “sheker hachen vahevel hayofi”? Guess you only believe in part of G-d’s Torah.
Who wants to marry a miserable feminist?
We should all send pictures of the shulchan aruch in response.
They want to hold the Torah,but not follow what is written in it – let them at least dress Tznius!
I am reminded of Shlomo Carlebach’s famous saying that if women are pure enough to carry our children for 9 months, they are pure enough to hold a Sefer Torah.
They are wearing talis and tefillin to make a statement. A fashion statement. The sefer is an accessory, like a Prada handbag.
Too bad they belong more to the religion of Feminazism than Judaism. If they belonged to Judaism they would know the k’dusha of being a woman and they wouldn’t have to go looking in places that are not good for them.
#9 Pashuteh Yid:
If the horse that the Baal Shem Tov rode on was heilig enough to carry the Baal Shem Tov, then the Baal Shem Tov’s horse is heilig enough to eat.
To # 9-
I remember Shlomo Carlbach at the House of Love and Prayer in San Francisco doing something similar to what you guys are doing. Except he had a shiksa on each arm. He eventually did T’Shuvah–You should too……
babishka-
i like your reasoning,