More than 100 women who assembled for the Women of the Wall’s monthly Rosh Chodesh service at the Western Wall faced more intense heckling than ever, the group says.
The women, who smuggled in a small Torah scroll for the service, were attacked verbally and physically, the group says in a statement, hours after the service in the women’s section of the Western Wall plaza.
Young girls and women with their faces covered whistled, shouted, spit at and cursed the worshipers in an effort to shut down the service, which was held behind police barriers at the back of the women’s section.
Men also chanted, jeered and yelled vulgarities to drown out the women’s prayers, shouting invective such as “Reform are worse than ISIS,” and “Reform go home,” according to the Women of the Wall.
— JTA
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