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Ultra-Orthodox Jews Protest Women at Western Wall

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered Friday, Nov. 5, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem to protest a Jewish women’s group that holds monthly prayers there in a long-running campaign for gender equality at the site. 👉For decades the "Women of the Wall" group has campaigned for equality of worship at the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites. Israel's religious institutions are dominated by the ultra-Orthodox, who are opposed to any changes at the site, where men and women pray in separate areas. The dispute has sharpened since the swearing-in of a new government in June pushed Israel's ultra-Orthodox parties into the opposition. A newly elected lawmaker, who also is a Reform rabbi, used his parliamentary immunity to bring Torah scrolls into the women's section in defiance of rules enforced by the ultra-Orthodox administrators of the site. Police set up metal barricades and deployed in large numbers to hold back the mostly male protesters, who blew whistles and occasionally surged forward only to be pushed back. The women carried empty mantles used to cloak Torah scrolls to protest the prohibition on bringing the scrolls themselves into the women's section. (AP)