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Yesh Atid tries to pass Western Wall plan into law
Amihai Attali
Published: 28.06.17, 09:27
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1. PLEASE GET REAL
CAPTAIN REALITY ,   SAFED HONESTY   (06.28.17)
Men go to pray at the Kotel in order to get away from their nagging wives for a while ,the last thing we need are mixed areas there.
2. LET'S BE HONEST HERE
TEL EM STRAIGHT ,   SAFED CYNIC HOUSE   (06.28.17)
The western wall ,known as the Kotel , today has little significance ,it is little more than a tourist trap ,a place to have fun and take some photos to show the folks back home.
3. The Kotel belongs to ALL JEWS
Alexander Scheiner ,   Israel   (06.28.17)
The Kotel belongs to all Jews, regardless of religious orientation, age and gender. If this is not the case, why do we need the Kotel?

It is wrong, that ultra-orthodox-extremist-supremacist Jews have a MONOPOLY on the Kotel. Those Jews are not representatives of the Jewish people or Judaism.

It is wrong, that liberal-reform-virtual and other non-orthodox Jews insist simply because of POLITICAL FEMINISM on exaggerated egalitarianism (which is non-existent in their own communities!) and thus jeopardize their own importance in the Jewish world.
4. Learning tolerance from the Torah &/or Chabad Lubavitch..
Alma Libre ,   Israel   (06.28.17)
...would definitely be a good thing at this time.

All of this intolerance will lead to baseless hatred! Being that we are in the month of Tammuz, facing towards the three weeks and the 9th of Av, may-be if we all just stop and have a little remembering of how baseless hatred worked out for us last time!

It is just a retaining wall...what gives it meaning, what gives it spirituality is:
a. the Shehina sits there and
b. we Jews, all Jews throughout the ages, have held it dear to our hearts.

Now is not the time to get divisive...
Now is the time to be kind, to learn tolerance and to share.
5. What about giving other groups a piece of the wall as well
Heshy friedman ,   Brooklyn ny   (06.28.17)
What about groups like Jews for Jesus and gays being allowed sections of the wall
6. TWO JEWS , FIVE OPINIONS...
ALBERTO EINSTEIN ,   SAFED GENIUS   (06.28.17)
7. WOMEN AND BELONGING
MR CHAUVE ,   SAFED CHAUVINISM   (06.28.17)
Women belong at home and in the kitchen , please leave the praying at the Kotel to the menfolk .
8. I AM THE WALL : A POEM
SAFED POET ,   SAFED BARD   (06.28.17)
I AM THE WALL
And I have seen it all
Empires rise and fall
visitors short and tall
Reating the wall like a shopping mall
Swimming and sailing
praying and wailing
prayers morning noon and eve
cameras never leave
the ever-present cellphone
I the wall am rarely alone
nothing that cannot be fixed
But I will be damned if I allow gender mixed
what really gladdens my heart
is men and women praying apart
so here's the rub
The wall aint no social club
so each go pray at your station
and enjoy temporary seperation
just be clever
remember the seperation is not for ever.
9. LET'S FACE FACTS
TEL EM STRAIGHT ,   SAFED HONESTY   (06.28.17)
It is hard for a man to pray with a boner ,hence the seperation .
10. WOMEN AND TORAH
MR CHAUVE ,   SAFED CHAUVINISM   (06.28.17)
Women generally lack the upper body strength to lift Torah scrolls for any length of time.
11. Spiritual counterfeiters
Judah ,   Manchester   (06.28.17)
Reform and Conservative movements are dying out in the US due to low birthrate and intermarriage. Their anti-Torah ideology is a total failure. They will do to Israeli Jews what they have done to American. Next thing they will demand that we recognize Gentiles they convert to their religions as Jews.
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