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Mother of slain teen rejects Women of Wall prayers in daughter’s name
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe mother of Hallel Yaffa Ariel, the teen slain in her own West Bank home last week, opposes a plan by the Woman of the Wall to dedicate a prayer service Thursday to her daughter.
“I am hearing about this for the first time from you,” Rina Ariel tells Haredi radio station Kol Hai, as she expresses her disapproval of the plan
“We really want everyone to see our pain, and we appreciate the prayers of a woman, but from our perspective things should be done in a halachic way and definitely not in other ways,” she says.
The Women of the Wall works for the right for women to pray at the Western Wall, which is opposed by Israel’s Orthodox rabbinate.
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