A Washington University mechanical engineering professor used optical illusion to invent a wall system that allows Orthodox Jewish women a full view of their religious services. Strict Jewish law forbids men from seeing women during services.
Women can distract men from prayer, rabbis say.
Women can hear the Torah reading, but not see the readers. However, Jewish law doesn't forbid the women from seeing the men. That opened the door to inventors to solve the problem. The journey hasn't been easy. But at his recent Bar Mitzvah, Moshe Franklin, 13,clearly enunciated every Hebrew word in his Torah reading.