Partition locked to stop women reading from Torah at West

Western Wall Chief Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz on Tuesday locked the partition between men and women to prevent men from handing Torah scrolls over to women praying on the other side, the Women of the Wall organization said.

The organization, which demands equal prayer rights for women at the Western Wall, last month celebrated a landmark victory, after two men transferred scrolls over the mechitza (partition dividing men and women) to let women read from a full-sized Torah scroll at a service to mark the start of the Hebrew month of Iyar.

 

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