The Yerushalayim Magistrates Court issued a ruling stating that security guards are not allowed to search individuals for Sifrei Torah and prevent them from bringing them into the holy site.
According to the court, the guards’ authority is limited to conducting inspections for the purpose of ensuring site security, and they cannot go beyond that scope. Consequently, they are not permitted to search for Sifrei Torah since such scrolls do not pose a security threat, despite the Western Wall Heritage Foundation’s prohibition in their code of conduct. However, the ruling affirms that the ushers within the Kosel premises can continue to enforce the site’s code of conduct.
The issue of bringing Sifrei Torah from outside into the Kosel area has been a recurring matter, especially concerning the radical Women of the Wall movement. The movement often attempts to enter the site with Sifrei Torah for women to read, which goes against the site’s code and halacha. In a recent incident, guards stopped a group of women from the movement who were trying to smuggle in a Sefer Torah in May. However, on Wednesday, the group succeeded in getting past the guards with the Sefer Torah.
Following the court’s decision, Women of the Wall chairperson Anat Hoffman stated: “This is huge news for anyone who holds religious freedom and woman’s equality important. For the first time, the Western Wall Heritage Foundation can not enforce its extreme, biased, and exclusionary policy against women at the Western Wall, and won’t search through the Women of the Walls belongings to find a Torah Scroll.”
In response to the ruling, the Western Wall Heritage Foundation stated that the Women of the Wall had previously filed a lawsuit against the Kosel’s rov and the foundation, which was ultimately rejected. The court’s decision, according to them, reflects the current reality in accordance with the Supreme Court’s previous ruling, where security guards handle security matters and ushers enforce regulations. The foundation emphasizes that the practice of not allowing entry for external Sifrei Torah is legally sound. They also mention that the Women of the Wall filed their lawsuit approximately three years ago and now seem to be presenting their lack of success as a victory.
{Matzav.com Israel}
These women are playing for murder.
If the judiciary set it this way, we will be further mixed with them.
There is no sanctity.
What next, Christians may bring being their ‘holy’ water etc. Christians are the first Reform Jews.
They are entitled to their form of JUDAISM
Why do they wear talis, tefilin, comes rosh chodesh to pray,… isnt it a bit exrteme?
where does normal end and extreme kick in?
Women of the Wallnuts are Reform. Reform is not Judaism.
You should worry about if it is kosher. Being Jewish is not our criteria.