No more arrests for the "crime" of wearing a tallit at the Kotel!
The verdict is in - the police appeal against the overturning of the arrests of five women on 11th April has been rejected. Anat Hoffman, Director of the Israeli Religious Action Centre and leader of the Women of the Wall group, said the ruling has:
"liberated the Western Wall for all the Jewish people."
This story is big enough now to make the major news outlets:
BBC News online Middle East
The New York Times
not to mention the Jewish Chronicle!
Not sure what will happen next - we shall see at the next Rosh Chodesh service in May. For now, though, just delighted at this news.
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