Tuesday, August 27, 2013

My views of Women of the Wall

For people who don't know what WOW does, they do demonstrations at the kotel in Jerusalem to promote gender equality and to promote teffilin wearing/talit wearing on the womens side of the mechitza. I personally believe that WOW should be doing their services in Jerusalem because Israel is a universal country where alot of people from many denominations come to pray. Yes, there is Robinson's arch, the egalitarian section of the kotel, but why can't they just wrap teffilin or talitot by themselves in their own section. I understand its still going to be an issue because there are women who are also very against women wearing tallit and teffilin, but i think that giving them the option to do it should be available and should definitely not get police attention. It definitely is a religious issue but its also a predominately a political issue. because there are two chief rabbinate's in charge and the harreidim are in charge and Israel is not like america in which that there is separation of church and state. Israel was purposely created to house the Jewish people, thus giving Israel the right to  arrest anyone who is disobeying the rules. at the same time, these people who are religiously in charge of Israel
, should not think of what they believe in personally but in what is good for their country (some call it a state) and how to govern such a diverse population of Jews. We have enough inner fighting as it is, sadly and it has gotten to the point where people are just super petty about it. we need to take a stand because we are one nation, a very small one.
I feel better now that all of this got out, i was getting exceedingly frustrated about this
<3 Jennie

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