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"Women of the Wall" Protest Exclusion from Praying at Jerusalem's Western Wall

5 hours ago ago from Beyond Burqas

Supporters of a group of religious activists called Women of the Wall gathered at the holy site in Jerusalem for prayers on Friday. Conservative Jew Nofrat Frenkel, 28 and a fifth year medical student, was the first woman to be arrested last month on Nov. 18th, during prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Her crime was wrapping herself in a tallit or fringed prayer shawl, a ritual garment traditionally worn only by men. The Women of ...

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PolitiFact: Crist gets half-true on education rankings

15 hours ago ago from The Gradebook | School news from Tampa Bay, Florida

Gov. Charlie Crist's persistent claim that Florida has recently moved from No. 31 to No. 14 to No. 10 in Education Week's annual, state-by-state rankings is half true, rules PolitiFact , the St. Petersburg Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking site. (Alas, this Times story only got it half-right, too.) But Crist might want to look at the rankings a little closer, PolitiFact adds. Then he could have trumpeted -- accurately -- that ...

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Ending the controversy

5 hours ago ago from Mashiach is coming

A New York Times article entitled Challenging Traditions at the Heart of Judaism describes a group of women who went to the Western Wall wearing prayer shawls, which offended many traditional worshipers. ... the rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinowitz, said “there is no value to prayer that creates controversy and offends other female worshipers” at the site. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/world/middleeast/22jerusalem.html?_r=1&hp ...

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17 hours ago ago from Fundraising

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