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Local Jews divided over treatment of women at Wall
by Justin Jacobs, Associate Editor
Mar 11, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
On a January morning in 1994, Judy Palkovitz was getting ready to pray. It was just after 6 a.m., and along with 16 other women, she’d walked through Jerusalem towards the Western Wall, the holiest...

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