A group of leaders from my synagogue, Temple Israel of Hollywood, and I were excited to join The Women of the Wall for Shacharit services on Rosh Hodesh Kislev on November 8. There were, in all, about 50 women who gathered, along with 15 men supporters, for 7 a.m. prayers. The women stood at the back of the women’s section while we men stood at the back of the men’s section, next to the mechitzah so we could join the women in the davening.
We men wore our tallitot tallitot as usual. The women, however, wrapped their tallitot around their necks as “scarves” to avoid “offending the sensitivities” of the other 400 worshippers at the Kotel (mostly orthodox and Hareidim, per written instructions from the Chief Rabbi of the Wall).
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