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16-11-2018, 10:14 PM
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The Wailing Wall has become the spitting wall!

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how disgusting. So this is how some women are treated in Israel - the land of democracy and equal rights?
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17-11-2018, 10:28 AM
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Re: The Wailing Wall has become the spitting wall!

That's quite disgusting, I was reading about idiots carving into sacred wall elsewhere the other day too and complaining they were being treated badly. Another couple carved into a sacred aboriginal rock. I don't get the disrespect for these places. OK be an atheist but don't destroy ancient sacred places.
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17-11-2018, 12:45 PM
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Re: The Wailing Wall has become the spitting wall!

Spitting is disgusting. This is a battle between a group of women who want to be allowed to worship in their own way by the wall and the Orthodox group (both men and women) who do not want to allow that.

When we were there I did witness an argument but this was on the men's side. One of the guys in our group had not covered his head and was told off by an American Orthodox Jew for being a tourist. He started complaining about tourists not respecting the site. I was observing from the outside and was pretty shocked at the whole altercation in such a holy place. Some women in our group did go into the women's section. You had to cover your head. They didn't have any trouble. I was surprised it was segregated by sex.

But it is an amazing place despite the conflicts and arguments. They have just as many arguments in some of the churches as there are different Christian faiths vying for power in Jerusalem's holy Christian sites.
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18-11-2018, 12:44 AM
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Head coverings for religious purposes are truly stupid. Brainwashing
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18-11-2018, 12:25 PM
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Perhaps but if you want to go to the wall head covering i.e. for men are available at the entrance small cardboard kippas.
 

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