Women of the Wall smuggle Torah scroll for monthly Kotel service
300 women hold prayers at holy site while protected from protesters by police barriers
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Members of the Women of the Wall movement hold a monthly prayer service at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, February 27, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
Hundreds of women joined Women of the Wall for the group’s monthly Rosh Chodesh service at the Western Wall, which included a Torah scroll smuggled in to the women’s section.
Among the some 300 women who assembled for the service on Thursday morning to mark the new Hebrew month of Iyar were those from nine pre-army leadership training programs from across the religious spectrum, the group said in a statement.
The women prayed enclosed in metal security barriers at the side and back of the women’s section manned by police and Western Wall security.
Some Orthodox women protested the service with signs and by making noise with sticks to drown out the prayers and Torah reading.
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