The solution lies in the regular presence of religious women determined to preserve the Kosel’s sanctity
The idea of answering Women of the Wall’s Rosh Chodesh performances with the dignified tefillah of frum girls was the brainchild of Rabbi Pesach Lerner, now founder of Eretz Hakodesh. It recognized the PR disaster generated by the previous response, with religious men jeering the Reform women’s gathering.
The threat by religious MKs last month to bar the entry of Reform Knesset member Gilad Kariv from bringing a sefer Torah into the Kosel by force would also have been a propaganda coup for Kariv.
Even more than the previous story, the solution to the Kosel provocation lies not in hoarse threats from religious politicians, but in the regular presence of religious women determined to preserve the Kosel’s sanctity.
The last time infantry managed to stop armored columns in their tracks with mass deployment of anti-tank rockets, it was Russian missiles deployed by Egyptian soldiers against IDF tanks in the Yom Kippur War.
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