Religious Oppression by the State
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Religious Oppression by the State
Posted on 4/4/2013
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Religious Oppression by the State
http://www.bhol.co.il/Article.aspx?id=52828
It is reported here that Women of the Wall have been forbidden to recite Kaddish, wrap themselves in a prayer shawl, and read from the Torah. The police will enforce this ‘interpretation’ of the law. To my mind this is simply unbelievable (only the prohibition on Jews ascending and praying on the Temple Mount is comparable).
There are two cumulative problems here:
A. How can a democratic state suppress a religious minority and deny it freedom of worship?
B. Moreover, what they are doing poses no problem under Jewish law. This is an ugly and baseless insistence. It is merely the use of force in order to suppress, nothing more.
I assume that some of those who suppress these women’s right to act according to their understanding also protest (and rightly so) the prohibition on Jews ascending and praying on the Temple Mount.
Source (the ‘Stop, People Think Here’ forum): http://www.bhol.co.il/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=3004289&forum_id=1364