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Titolo: Jerusalem police detain woman at Western Wall for wearing prayer shawl 'incorrectly'

ROTFL!
 
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Jerusalem police detain woman at Western Wall for wearing prayer shawl 
'incorrectly'
Deb Houben was taken aside by police after concluding a prayer service 
celebrating the beginning of the Hebrew month.
By Aliyana Traison | Jun.21, 2012 | 9:17 PM
 
Jerusalem Police detained a woman for nearly four hours on Thursday for 
wearing a tallit, or prayer shawl, "incorrectly" at the Western Wall.
 
Deb Houben, a native of Boston, was taken aside by police after 
concluding a prayer service celebrating the beginning of the Hebrew 
month with 65 other people from Women of the Wall, an organization that 
campaigns for the equal right to pray publicly at Judaism's most holy site.
 
Many of the women participating in the service were also wearing prayer 
shawls, but Houben was detained for wearing hers "incorrectly" – meaning 
wrapped around her shoulders, rather than draped across her neck like a 
scarf.
 
Houben said that police officers approached her during the prayer 
session and told her to readjust the shawl, to which she complied.
 
Following the prayer session, as the women made their way through 
security down to Robinson's Arch to read from the Torah, she put the 
prayer shawl back around her shoulders, at which point police pulled her 
back through the security gate and detained her for disturbing the peace.
 
"I was wearing it incorrectly. I was wearing my tallit like a tallit, 
not like a scarf," said Houben. At no point was she told to remove the 
shawl completely, she said.
Houben was released with a 7-day restraining order from the Western Wall.
 
"The kotel belongs to everyone," Houben told Haaretz. "I understand that 
I might have incited a riot, but I think there's a greater issue at 
stake here. Why is it always the women? Because they're going to incite 
something by their very being."
 
Women of the Wall have been gathering at the holy site at the beginning 
of every new month since 1988, when an international group of Orthodox 
Jewish women decided to hold a public prayer service there.
 
The services are held according to Orthodox practice, meaning they do 
not read the sections that require the presence of a minyan (10 men). 
They do read out loud from the Torah, but away from the wall itself, and 
many of the women wear prayer shawls. The group says the only of its 
practices that should be seen as controversial in terms of Jewish law is 
'kol isha', which forbids men from hearing the sound of a single woman 
singing.
 
The prayer sessions have garnered fierce opposition from other 
worshipers, culminating in physical or verbal violence on occasion, and 
members of the group have been arrested in the past for various infractions.
 
The leader of the group, Anat Hoffman, was arrested in 2010 for carrying 
a torah scroll around the compound. In 2009, another member of the group 
was arrested for wearing a prayer shawl.
 
Jerusalem Police released a statement in the wake of the event, saying 
that Houden was detained after she entered the Western Wall area dressed 
in violation of regulations.
 
Oz Rosenberg contributed to this report.
 
 
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 'incorrectly'
 
polizia religiosa, insomma. L'Iran, in pratica

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Ma infatti.  Forse è per questo che odiano tanto l'Iran: è così simile a 
loro...
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In realta' Anat Hoffman gira il mondo, e' impegnata in questa
battaglia da qualche anno e ci sono buone possibilita' che ci riesca.
Per parla di Iran occorre essere davvero pirla.

Per parla di Iran occorre essere davvero pirla.
 
Questo sarebbe il tuo commento?
Non sapevo comunque che israele avesse la polizia religiosa... non si
smette mai di imparare, incredibile!
 

 Questo sarebbe il tuo commento?
 
Unito ai soldi che mando ogni mese alle Women Of The Wall.
Vuoi contribuire anche tu?
 
 
 

 In realta' Anat Hoffman gira il mondo
 
e questo cambia il fatto che l'abbiano arrestata per non aver
rispettato determinate tradizioni religiose, ovvero un arresto da
modesty patrol?