Despite Women of the Wall leader Anat Hoffman being banned from the Kotel plaza for 30 days, Rosh Chodesh services proceeded today in the plaza and concluded, as usual, with a Torah service at Robinson’s Arch. And they live-tweeted the whole thing!
Among other things, they tweeted:
Proof that police + rules are becoming more extreme: we have always have blown shofar, today police stopped us + confiscated the shofar
Evidently the shofar was returned when they headed down to Robinson’s Arch. Another tweet:
Shofar blowing at robinson’s arch. A beautiful, free sound
Personally, I think that wall is an idol, but if men are free to worship at its feet, women should be too.
So Rosh Chodesh sameach, yidn.
