http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/anat-hoffman-interrogated/ Catching up with a leader of the Women of the Wall. en-us bharris@jta.org Copyright 2010 2010-01-07T;14:36:00-05:00 j.caroleclarke@netzero.net Part of this question was settled when the secular government ceded authority of the religious sections of life to the ultra-orthodox representatives.  Another part of the question is still ongoing: female rabbis, the role of females in Judaism.  Pre-Israel the men ran the religion and the women ran the family.  Then the modern American influence was felt thru the Reform movement.  No one doubts that the ultra-orthodox will care for The Wall.  It is, after all, the closest we can physically get to the Temple without removing non-Jewish influences on top of the Temple Mount.  The ultra-orthodox have spent their lives keeping Torah alive for the rest of us, I prefer not to trust anyone else to care for the Western Wall at this time. Part of this question was settled when the secular government ceded authority of the religious sections of life to the ultra-orthodox representatives.  Another part of the question is still ongoing: female rabbis, the role of females in Judaism.  Pre-Israel the men ran the religion and the women ran the family.  Then the modern American influence was felt thru the Reform movement.  No one doubts that the ultra-orthodox will care for The Wall.  It is, after all, the closest we can physically get to the Temple without removing non-Jewish influences on top of the Temple Mount.  The ultra-orthodox have spent their lives keeping Torah alive for the rest of us, I prefer not to trust anyone else to care for the Western Wall at this time.

]]> 2011-03-29T;21:23:00-05:00 didi.remez@gmail.com Does this have anything to do with Michael Oren’s “inquiry” on the issue? http://bit.ly/5DRqM0 Does this have anything to do with Michael Oren’s “inquiry” on the issue? http://bit.ly/5DRqM0

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