The daily Yated Ne’eman addresses Sunday’s, 2 Rosh Chodesh Tammuz 5773 event at the Kosel. Police provided maximum security for a group of Women of the Wall (WoW) so they could hold their rosh chodesh prayer event without being disrupted.
The report cites that as we mark 46 years since the liberation of the Kosel from Jordanian occupation, with the latter preventing Jews from reaching the Kosel for 19 years, the current Israeli government, which champions liberalism and democracy, sees no problem with preventing chareidim from reaching the Kosel. Many chareidim were barred from reaching the holy site as police decided unilaterally this is an acceptable means of protecting the WoW group, at the expense of frum Jews seeking to reach the area on rosh chodesh. Police permitted to come “as they do monthly, wrapping themselves in tallis and tefilin, insulting that which is holy and dear to Am Yisrael.”
Police only prevented chareidi mispallalim from reaching the Kosel “while permitting the group of Conservative and Reform women to undermine and trample the kedusha of the Kosel, a place from which the Shechina never departed.”
Yated adds that if police in any country in the world other than Israel prevented Orthodox Jews from reaching a holy prayer site there would be an audible outcry yet in Israel; this can pass as an acceptable event.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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The charedim should publicly boycott the kosel:You’ll see how fast they’ll cave in.
For all the knee jerk responders
sil vous plait
To preserve the peace. Duh.
Its really ironic that the same Chareidim who refuse to accept any responsibility to serve in the security forces, would be among the first to demand the right to engage in activities on har habayis that have a high liklihood of triggering violence and bloodshed that will put the security forces at risk. Sure, its ok because the bochurim in the security forces will be yenem….aka frei yidden who will have to serve because we won’t.
#3
“Chareidim who refuse to accept any responsibility to serve in the security forces, would be among the first to demand the right to engage in activities on har habayis ”
try that one again
Oh,it’s you..par for the course
Gadolhadorah – The Chareidim don’t go on Har Habayis.
Rashahadorah typically posts his reform shtuyot here.
In any event, it is those bochorim’s Limud Torah that protects the IDF.
Ridiculous and stupid security decision.
YET I do not believe it was to hold back people from tefillah at the Kosel, it was a security mishap.
I believe that the second paragraph, first sentence, says that the editors or publishers of Yated Ne’eman see some betrayal by the State of Israel, which liberated the Kosel from the Jordanians and now have denied access to the Kosel to some frum Jews. Evidently, the Yated editors think that the State of Israel is going to keep frum Jews away from the Kosel for some indefinite period of time, as the Jordanians did from 1948 to 1967. If the Yated editors seriously believe that, or seriously think that the action of the State of Israel in protecting the WoW participants for a few hours – even if such protection was unnecessary – then the Yated editors and those who share their opinions deserve a high level of contempt from Jews and any other thinking persons who support the State of Israel.
I have not made up my mind about the Women of the Wall and whether their interpretation of Torah is correct, but I will not advance my understanding of the Torah issues by subscribing to the Yated deception that the State of Israel today is like the Jordanian occupiers of the Kosel from 1948 to 1967. The Yated report of events (as reported above) is disgraceful.
#8
Smell the coffee
nfgo: The Zionists caused the LOSS of the Moselle to Jewish access in ’48 (tbrouh ’67). So no thanks to them for recovering the loss they caused.
That should read LOSS of the “KOSEL” (not Moselle, as spell checker unhelpfully changed.)
If they knew how to behave and act in a Torah way, this wouldn’t have happened.
Well, clearly, the WoW gang have no concept of “how to behave and act in a Torah way”.