{"id":8602,"date":"2013-08-07T11:53:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T17:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=8602"},"modified":"2013-08-09T18:21:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T00:21:12","slug":"women-of-the-wall-shielded-by-police-raises-torah-scroll-and-blows-shofar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/women-of-the-wall-shielded-by-police-raises-torah-scroll-and-blows-shofar\/","title":{"rendered":"Women of the Wall, shielded by police, raises Torah scroll and blows shofar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (JTA) \u2014 Women of the Wall blew a shofar at the back of the Western Wall Plaza and raised a Torah scroll at the plaza\u2019s gate under a heavy police barricade.<\/p>\n<p>The police shielded the the estimated 300 women and their male supporters on Wednesday morning at the back of the plaza, facing the wall but distant from it, during Women of the Wall\u2019s monthly Rosh Chodesh service.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8603\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WoW-blowing-shofar-1024x682.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8603\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8603 lazyload\" title=\"WoW-blowing-shofar-1024x682\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WoW-blowing-shofar-1024x682-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WoW-blowing-shofar-1024x682-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WoW-blowing-shofar-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/199;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8603\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8603\" title=\"WoW-blowing-shofar-1024x682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WoW-blowing-shofar-1024x682-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WoW-blowing-shofar-1024x682-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WoW-blowing-shofar-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-8603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women of the Wall members blow the shofar at the back of the Western Wall Plaza during its monthly Rosh Chodesh service, Aug. 7, 2013. (Miriam Alster)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As many as six layers of fencing, a 15-foot buffer zone and two lines of police separated the group from a crowd of mostly haredi Orthodox protesters who blew whistles, screamed and chanted insults. In the men\u2019s section of the plaza, a man chanted prayers and psalms into a megaphone, disrupting the women\u2019s monthly Rosh Chodesh service.<\/p>\n<p>As in recent months, thousands of mostly haredi Orthodox girls and young women packed the plaza adjacent to the wall and prayed quietly during the morning.<br \/>\nWomen of the Wall has not been allowed to bring a Torah scroll into their monthly service, but before entering the plaza, the group sang together as one woman held a scroll aloft at the plaza\u2019s gate.<\/p>\n<p>By the time Anat Hoffman, the group\u2019s chairwoman, blew the shofar at the end of the service, most of the protesters had dispersed.<\/p>\n<p>Following the service, Hoffman said in a statement, \u201cWe will not forget that the Torah is exiled from the Western Wall, due to the discriminatory misuse of power by Rabbi [Shmuel] Rabinowitz,\u201d the rabbi of the Western Wall.<\/p>\n<p>Women of the Wall gathers at the beginning of each Jewish month for a women\u2019s Rosh Chodesh prayer service at the wall. Members had been arrested in the past for wearing prayer shawls due to a law forbidding any practice that falls outside of the wall\u2019s \u201clocal custom.\u201d In April, a judge determined that the group\u2019s activities did not contravene the law. Since then, none of the women has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the women were barricaded in the plaza\u2019s corner, far from the wall and next to a public restroom.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Women%20of%20the%20Wall%2C%20shielded%20by%20police%2C%20raises%20Torah%20scroll%20and%20blows%20shofar%20\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[394,378,8790,8795,531,8788,2794,1030,533],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8650,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8602\/revisions\/8650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}