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Re "Israel Moves to Review Restrictions on Women's Prayer at Western Wall" (news article, Dec. 26):
The "outrage" expressed by some over longstanding restrictions on vocal women's prayer at the Western Wall is unfortunate.
For more than three decades, the Western Wall has been a place, perhaps the only one in the world, where Jews of all affiliations and persuasions have regularly prayed side by side.
That has been possible because of the good will of non-Orthodox Jews — Israelis and Westerners alike — who, though they may opt for very different services in their own homes, synagogues or temples, have chosen to accommodate the religious sensibilities of their fellow Jews and respect the Jewish religious tradition at the most historically Jewish site on earth.
Allowing for services that will violate the religious sensibilities of most of the Jews who pray at the site daily might afford some the gratification of a "victory." But it will advance neither Jewish worship nor Jewish unity.
(Rabbi) DAVID ZWIEBEL
Executive Vice President
Agudath Israel of America
New York, Dec. 26, 2012
To the Editor:
Your article about Women of the Wall ("A Divide Over Prayer at a Sacred Site," news article, Dec. 23) was illuminating, but it did not mention an important point of Jewish law.
There is a strain of argument in Jewish law itself that supports women donning prayer shawls and phylacteries. Several rabbinical authorities have taken this view as early as the 12th and 13th centuries; not all consider this act to be wearing men's attire.
These women are neither Jewish nihilists in the strict sense nor "crazy American ladies," as some in the secular Israeli world view them.
They have a leg in Jewish law upon which they stand.
(Rabbi) IAN SILVERMAN
Greenlawn, N.Y., Dec. 24, 2012
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