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Women held for breaching ban at Jerusalem Western Wall
Five women have been arrested at Jerusalem's Western Wall for breaching a ban on performing religious rituals Orthodox Jews say are reserved for men.
The women are part of a movement seeking to overturn the prohibition, issued by the High Court in 2003.
Authorities are working on a compromise to try to resolve the dispute.
The Western Wall - a relic of the Biblical Temple compound - currently has separate sections where men and women are allowed to pray.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22103508
The women are part of a movement seeking to overturn the prohibition, issued by the High Court in 2003.
Authorities are working on a compromise to try to resolve the dispute.
The Western Wall - a relic of the Biblical Temple compound - currently has separate sections where men and women are allowed to pray.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22103508
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israel is a *democracy* not a theocracy, right?
maybe that's why it's all the more galling in the first world when blatant discrimination occurs.
..HIGH RELIEF..
