‘Mechitza’ (separation) at the Western Wall – and the unity of Israel
The rabbis and leaders of the Jewish Theological Seminary prayed separately until the 1980s, as also did most Reform Jews in Europe before the Holocaust.
Women reading selichot -- Jewish penitential poems and prayers said leading up to the High Holidays -- at the Western Wall before Rosh Hashana(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)ByEINAT RAMON
