Press Release
Women of the Wall met for Rosh Hodesh Tammuz prayers this morning at the Western Wall with 300 women in attendance in the women’s section and over 100 men in support.
Frannie
Werner and her family came from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to celebrate her Bat
Mitzvah ceremony, which they began planning over six months ago. This was the
family’s first time in Israel and at the Western Wall. Women of the Wall vowed
to ensure that Frannie would read from a Torah scroll, despite the attempts
made by Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Administrator of the Western Wall, to prevent
women and girls from accessing Torah scrolls at the holy site. There are over
100 scrolls for public use in the men’s section, and Rabbi Rabinowitz runs a
lucrative Bar Mitzvah industry at the Kotel
