The fervently religious who are obstructing women's prayer at the Wall are desecrating God's name, the author says.

Rabbi Yitz Greenberg:

We Must Speak Out .

Modern Orthodox leaders need to support Sharansky's proposal and also dissociate from the haredi Western Wall Foundation.

Moderni ortodoksi trebaju poduprijeti prijedlog Šaranskog i odvojiti se od haredi fondacije (Western Wall Foundation). Sada kada je Natan Sharansky objavio prijedlog za rješenje sukoba oko Zida, vrijeme je da progovore  vođe moderne ortodoksije. Treba  ne samo  poduprijeti  njegovo "Solomonsko" rješenje nego i odvojiti  se  od politike i taktike koju provodi haredi Western Wall Heritage Foundation... Sada je Sharansky predložio način kako d a se zadovolji pravda bez gubitaka.

Moderna ortofdoksija treba jasno kazati da smatra da je Zid  Kotel sveto mjesto za cijeli židovski narod i da nije haredi sinagoga u kojoj vrijede samo njihove socijalne norme. Zid ( Kotel) je postojao  prije nego što je sinagoga postala institucija za molitvu i službu božju. Zid je povijesno blago cijele nacije....

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.. Secondly, the authorities committed a Chillul Hashem [a desecration of God’s name] by prodding the police to arrest women for wearing a tallit or carrying a Torah, and threatening to arrest them for reciting Kaddish.

This flagrant foul was infamously aggravated by the strip-search inflicted on Anat Hoffman, leader of the Women of the Wall. Essentially, the haredim pressed for these arrests for their own ‘convenience’, i.e. not to be disturbed.

The arrests have left a permanent mark of shame: in the Jewish state, Jews were arrested for exercising their religious freedom to worship God....