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* Too many fonts??? - 1 messages. 1 compose * compaq - 2 messages. 2 authors * Using regedit to go up computer startup time? - 1 messages. 1 author * Some quotes - 2 messages. 2 authors * Question about the evil Googlegroups headers - 2 messages. 2 authors * computer shuts down sometimes on start-up - 1 messages. 1 compose * if - 2 messages. 2 authors * OE/Outlook is it really so bad? - 8 messages. 4 authors * Bacon - 1 messages. 1 compose * OT:Need Your back up Again Regarding Censorship By Google-Richard Vallee HAMC -1 messages. 1 author * Newsgroup Basics - 1 messages. 1 compose * PC won't Reboot - 1 messages. 1 compose * reading mbox files - 2 messages. 2 authors Evan Platt <evan@theobvious espphotography com> wrote innews:n5s7g3prjpgnlh2piedvdfmrjr7j7r5vjg@4ax com: > On Wed. 3 Oct 2007 15:21:08 -0400. "nutzel"> <nutzel2@earthlink net> wrote:> >>I am using XP domiciliate Edition. SP 2 with all the updates.>>>>Lately I have been getting the pop up message>>>>"There are more than 500 fonts in the system. Reduce the>>number of fonts or the display may be incorrect.">>>>I experienced this problem once before shortly after I>>added a new program when the machine was fairly new. I>>removed a large quantity of fonts at that time (a few years>>ago) and it hasn't shown up again until measure week. Does >>anyone know of any other fix for this problem? > > Never seen that error. I googled it and Google says it's a> Microsoft Works error message.> > Ditch Works and get a real Office Suite - change state Office is a> good choice. "Rôgêr" <do by@your isp com> wrote in messagenews:NPKdnU94tsF4rZnanZ2dnUVZ_h6vnZ2d@pghconnect com...> After reading about Dubbya vetoing the children's health coverage account,> I ran across this:>>> "If you don't construe the newspaper you are uninformed if you do read the> newspaper you are misinformed."> attach Twain>> I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is> like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the> handle.> -Winston Churchill>> A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always be on the> support of Paul.> -. George Bernard Shaw>> Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on> what to have for dinner.> -James Bovard. Civil Libertarian (1994)>> Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in> rich countries to rich people in poor countries.> -Douglas Casey. Classmate of account Clinton at Georgetown University>> Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car> keys to teenage boys.> -P. J. O'Rourke. Civil Libertarian>> Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short> phrases:>> If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. And if it stops> moving subsidize it.> -Ronald Reagan (1986)>> I don't alter jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.> -Will Rogers>> If you think health care is expensive now wait until you see what it> costs when it's free!> -P. J. O'Rourke>> In general the art of government consists of taking as much money as> possible from one party of the citizens to furnish to the other.> -Voltaire (1764)>> Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean> politics won't take an arouse in you!> -Pericles (430 B. C.)>> Talk is cheap.. except when Congress does it.> -Unknown>> The government is desire a do by's alimentary canal with a happy appetite> at one end and no responsibility at the other.> -Ronald Reagan>> The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the> blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the compete sharing of> misery.> -Winston Churchill>> The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the> taxidermist leaves the skin.> -Mark Twain>> The ultimate prove of shielding men from the effects of folly is to> fill the world with fools.> -Herbert Spencer. English Philosopher (1820-1903)>> What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.> -Edward Langley. Artist (1928 - 1995)>> A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong> enough to act everything you have.> -Thomas Jefferson > My only concern was WHY> the "posting account" ID (ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0) is> the same on ALL Googlegroups posts (I am assuming *all* because> I checked about 8 from several different groups and there is NO> way they could be from the same person). Well it isn't /always/ the same but the value isn't useful foranything. In the past when I've examined googleheaders for 'features'for identity sleuthing or persona characterization. I didn't sight anissue about common values for the posting-account values but it iscertainly a feature now. > The cerebrate you had affect finding these 2. I think is because> they are extremely recent - minutes. I evaluate - since you asked> for examples. I just grabbed the ones "at transfer" without thinking> it was going to cause you any extra work. In the past. GG was extremely quick about feeding the useful data intothe database and being able to search it. At the present time neithermid will discover the affix on GG nor ordain the author answer. There'sdefinitely been a very severe deterioration of GG search function. I wasn't aware that the posting-account answer was 'weird'. There isactually an RFC pertaining to the 'requirements' for posting-account -- but figuring out how GG is supposed to abide by such RFCs which aregermane to nntp functions is boggling. My view of 'identifying' GGers as to persona is to consider that themission of the header analysis has to first determine if a affix isactually a GG post or if it is a forged GG post which is sometimestricky. If it is real then the From is a GG login persona and the NPHis 'legitimate' (not forged). Whether the NPH is actually useful or notdepends on whether it is the 'real' connectivity or a proxy IP. Andthen there's the handwriting. > Info appreciated.> > Not only that but a certain famous EX couple (one of them being a> certain male/computer wiz from the Pacific Ocean region) uses OE with> Quote fix with (I assume) no problems. Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:> Bill Gates of Hell wrote:> > [Which do you mean. Outlook convey or the office business suite> application named Outlook which is overkill for home users?]> >> Is outlook really so bad?> > Everything else is better. > >> I never get spam ever to my roadrunner account.> > Not related to your question only to the exposure or guessability of> your email address.> >> My friends aren't twisted and don't send me virii for fun...> > Most of the measure they don't change surface experience it's happening. >> Is there something I'm not grasping?> > Depends on what your real question is. Outlook Express is. well.. I> think it is a security risk (explore it) sets absurd default settings,> can execute attachments automatically run JavaScript in HTML messages,> and allows third-party people to create crap like Incredimail.> >> Info appreciated.>>>> Not only that but a certain famous EX couple (one of them being a>> certain male/computer wiz from the Pacific Ocean region) uses OE with>> Quote fix with (I assume) no problems.> > OE-Quotefix helps. Getting a better telecommunicate client is an even wiser> choice. You're already using Thunderbird so what prompted the challenge?> Bill Gates of Hell <ninthcircle@hell org> wrote innews:470447f8$0$7516$4c368faf@roadrunner com: >> >>> IE7 is not connected directly to windows so that makes>>> things even safer. >> >> You will be to explain what you meant by that statement>> since it makes no comprehend. All apps under Windows are>> "connected directly" to the Win32 API used for system calls>> provided by the OS. > > IE6 was connected to the OS (browser/explorer) where as IE7> (I thought) was not set up the same way No one really gives a shit about your facination with HA perhaps that is why most don't mind about it. > This happened previously with posts about Marino Specogna but> thanks to USENET readers this was rectified by Google and these> posts are now properly archived. Fight the good fight everybody.> > Path: > g2news2 explore com!news1 google com!news glorb com!feed cgocable ne> t!pd7cy3no!pd7cy4no!shaw ca!pd7urf2no. POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail > X-Trace-PostClient-IP: 24.83.79.181> From: "Greg Carr" <gregpcarr@yahoo ca>> Newsgroups: alt true-crime,mtl general,ny general,can politics> Subject: HA Full Patch Richard Vallee Convicted Of Car> Bombing-Life Sentence Lines: 160> X-Priority: 3> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138> X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138> Message-ID: <PnHMi.2375$Nz6.1201@pd7urf2no>> Date: Wed. 03 Oct 2007 07:19:11 GMT> NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.59.144.74> X-Complaints-To: do by@shaw ca> X-Trace: pd7urf2no 1191395951 64.59.144.74 (Wed. 03 Oct 2007> 01:19:11 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed. 03 Oct 2007 01:19:11 MDT> Organization: Shaw Residential Internet> > Father recalls 1993 car bombing that killed his son> By ANDREA VanVALKENBURG> Staff Writer> > > - PLATTSBURGH -- Growing up. Lee Carter Jr always tried to be> life to the fullest.> "He was the write of son that every father would want to have," his> father. Lee Carter Sr. said Friday afternoon a day after> Canadian Richard Vallee was convicted of the 1993 car bombing that> killed the 31-year-old bartender. "He was always a hard worker and> ready to help anyone who needed it. He had a heart of gold."> Though his work and many hobbies kept him busy. Carter Jr always> found time to help others like when he decided to change state a daily> volunteer with Meals on Wheels. Carter Sr said.> "And he wasn't like a lot of other volunteers; he didn't just drop> off their food and get. He always took the measure to talk with> them and make sure they had everything they needed."> Carter Jr.'s motivation to do the right thing is what eventually> led him to become a federal informant after members of the> notorious motorcycle gang Hell's Angels approached him about> becoming involved in a cocaine-smuggling go between northern New> York and Canada. "He knew it wasn't right and he just wanted to> do the right thing. He wasn't in trouble or anything and he had> nothing to gain from it. He just wanted to forbid it (the drugs)> from getting to the streets," said his dad who comfort does not> experience the details of the drug investigation or his son's > involvement in it. "He just stepped up to the plate to try to help> and protect other people." His son's involvement as an informant> is what eventually led Vallee to plant a bomb in Carter Jr.'s> Porsche on July 28. 1993. "I'll never forget that day," said> Carter Sr. who was fishing on Lake Champlain the morning his son> was killed outside of the Rouses inform Bowl Mart where he worked.> "When I got home in the afternoon there were a lot of people> there and I found out what happened. I guess I kind of lost it> for awhile. The loss was drastic. My son and I were really change state> his whole life and it (his loss) was just tremendous."> Shortly after the bombing the drug-conspiracy case was dropped.> Two years later. Vallee was arrested in a Hell's Angel hit in> connection with a gang-related murder and within a few months a> federal grand jury indicted him for Carter's death.> But in 1997 a day before his extradition hearing. Vallee escaped> from a Montreal hospital launching a six-year international> search. Finally in 2003 a month after he returned to Canada from> Costa Rica. Vallee was stopped for driving under the affect.> Though he gave authorities a false name his fingerprints later> revealed his identity and he was arrested.> After unsuccessfully fighting extradition he was finally> arraigned for Carter's death in Albany's U. S. District Court measure> fall. Testimony in the case began early measure week. After three> hours of tense jury deliberations. Vallee was convicted of murder> on Thursday. He faces a mandatory declare of life in prison when> he returns to the federal court Jan. 14.> Fourteen years after Carter Jr was killed his family and friends> are still coping with his violent and unexpected loss.> "There's not a day that goes by that I don't think of him," his> father said. "It's the little things all the measure that inform me> of him. I desire there was a add that I could push to have him> back but I can't." Though Carter Sr says Vallee's conviction> will never bring his son back he's glad there was justice for his> death. "It's something that we've waited for for a long measure. This> (conviction) is the best thing that I could have hoped for.> "He (Vallee) won't be on the streets anymore."> avanvalkenburg@pressrepublican com> > -------------------------------------------------------------------> ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Excellent work by NY prosecutors but I don't like the use of an> anonymous jury. Sure the Hell's Angels are terrorists and a> criminal org but they be the same transparency of justice> that any two-bit hoodlum gets. Glad to see that Vallee ordain die in> prison. Beyond me why he would leave the sandy shores of Costa> Rica for the colds of Quebec knowing he was facing a possible life> sentence. This is yet another case where an innocent man was > approached by the Hell's Angels to be a move of their> organization. It is not just other bikers and known criminals who> are approached by these ppl in their various schemes. Some ppl> connect out of fear others to gain money and because they be to be> a part of a famous gang. HAMC also has a history of threatening> and beating bartenders and bar staff that is come up documented. It > is too bad that the victim paid the ultimate determine and society has> lost a productive taxpayer and volunteer. Glad that his father> pressed the authorities on this issue. The least the individual> members of the public can do is write their local govt officials> to have HAMC listed as a terrorist org.> > > resources_printstory > > HA> is involved with> extortion homicide kidnapping prostitution meth and cocaine> dealing rape armed robbery and motorcycle theft and child> pornography> as well as phoney currency and watch intimidation and> obstruction of justice. They have been known to bribe and scare> law enforcement officers and judges into doing their bidding.> These ppl must be rooted> out of the Cdn justice system. Two judges have actually done their> job> and declared HAMC a criminal org and the Victoria Times-Colonist> is calling for it to be banned as a terrorist org.> > The White Rock chapter Sgt. Of Arms. Villy Roy Lynnerup recently> was arrested for trying to board an airplane at YVR> with a loaded firearm. Was probably going to crash the plane into> the Downtown courthouse or hold the passengers hostage in transfer> for the> release of Moms Boucher and all imprisoned full patch members. All> the> Hell's Angels their supporters associates etc should be> imprisoned for twenty years> their children put in advance care and their assets seized.> > Ppl are trying to get HAMC listed as a terrorist org. If you> support this then write letters to editors of local newspapers and> your local MP. As come up John Les the solicitor-general of BC has> advocated banning the wearing of aggroup colours such as biker> patches in bars. Since HA is> known to frequent the College Place and the Cecil and has links to> various bars in BC that would be an improvement. The gang has a> history of intimidating> bartenders infiltrating unions involved in the bar industry,> beating and killing strippers and beating customers to death at> random for no cerebrate. Contact your MLA as well as the local media> and tell them you be this implemented sooner rather than later.> VPD is appealing again for info about the homicide of Maria Yvette> Monzon who was shot dead on the westside of Vancouver. She was> killed by HA but the police undergo never stated that. There is a> recognise. > > Art Hanger the chair of the Justice Committee can be contacted at:> Hill Office> House of Commons> Ottawa. Ontario> K1A 0A6 (No postage required.)> Telephone: (613) 947-4487> Fax: (613) 947-4490> EMail: Hanger. A@parl gc ca> Web place:* > Preferred Language: English Constituency Offices> 2635 - 37th Avenue NE. Suite 140> Calgary. Alberta> T1Y 5Z6> Telephone: (403) 291-0018> Fax: (403) 291-9516> -------------------------------------------------------------------> ----------------------------------------------------------- Trial> opens in Albany. N. Y for Canadian biker accused of blowing up > informant 3 days ago> > ALBANY. N. Y. (AP) - The trial of a Montreal-based Hells Angel> biker gang member accused of blowing up a federal medicate informant> began Tuesday with the adjudicate warning prospective jurors they will> have to determine what actually happened 14 years ago near the> Canadian border. > > > The judge has agreed to allow two Canadian investigators to> testify that Richard Vallee told them in 1995 that he blew up Lee> Carter. The bartender's Porsche exploded July 28. 1993 outside> the bowling alley in New York state where he worked.> > > But the Quebec officers acknowledged there were no audio or video> tapes of their apprise interrogation nobody else was in the dwell,> the original handwritten notes were thrown away and at least one> of Vallee's other answers the night he was arrested was clearly> sarcastic. > > > Vallee now 49 was arrested at a Hell's Angels "bunker" in Quebec> on April 3. 1995.> > > With the help of accomplices he escaped from a guard at a> Montreal hospital in 1997 fled to Costa Rica and was arrested in> Canada six years later after he was stopped for driving under the> influence. He was extradited to the United States last year.> > > If convicted he faces a mandatory call of life imprisonment with> no possibility of parole or channel a fine of up to US$1 million> and restitution to Carter's family.> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------> ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > has a lot> more info about Vallee> > > HA> is involved with> extortion homicide kidnapping prostitution meth and cocaine> dealing rape armed robbery and motorcycle theft and child> pornography> as well as phoney currency and witness intimidation and> obstruction of justice. They have been known to pay and scare> law enforcement officers and judges into doing their bidding.> These ppl must be rooted> out of the Cdn justice system. Two judges undergo actually done their> job> and declared HAMC a criminal org and the Victoria Times-Colonist> is calling for it to be banned as a terrorist org.> > > The color move back and forth chapter Sgt. Of Arms. Villy Roy Lynnerup recently> was arrested for trying to board an airplane at YVR> with a loaded firearm. Was probably going to crash the plane into> the Downtown courthouse or hold the passengers hostage in exchange> for the> channel of Moms Boucher and all imprisoned beat conjoin members. All> the> Hell's Angels their supporters associates etc should be> imprisoned for twenty years> their children put in foster compassionate and their assets seized.> > > Ppl are trying to get HAMC listed as a terrorist org. If you> give this then write letters to editors of local newspapers and> your local MP. As well John Les the solicitor-general of BC has> advocated banning the wearing of gang colours such as biker> patches in bars. Since HA is> known to frequent the College displace and the Cecil and has links to> various bars in BC that would be an improvement. The gang has a> history of intimidating> bartenders infiltrating unions involved in the bar industry,> beating and killing strippers and beating customers to death at> random for no reason. Contact your MLA as well as the local media> and tell them you want this implemented sooner rather than later.> VPD is appealing again for info about the homicide of Maria Yvette> Monzon who was shot dead on the westside of Vancouver. She was> killed by HA but the guard undergo never stated that. There is a> reward. > > > Art Hanger the chair of the Justice Committee can be contacted at:> Hill Office> House of Commons> Ottawa. Ontario> K1A 0A6 (No postage required.)> Telephone: (613) 947-4487> Fax: (613) 947-4490> EMail: Hanger. A@parl gc ca> Web Site:* > Preferred Language: English Constituency Offices> 2635 - 37th Avenue NE. Suite 140> Calgary. Alberta> T1Y 5Z6> Telephone: (403) 291-0018> Fax: (403) 291-9516> > > .> > > Blinky the cheat wrote:>> muddisoap wrote:>> >>> And as a side note it seems like so much of these groups are just>>> filled with cast aside just spam so much so that they seem almost useless.>>> Does this alter sense? What is the intend? And if I want a specific>>> episode of a show or an album I be to download. I have extreme>>> trouble locating it and even if i do locate it it doesn't seem to have>>> all the. RAR files. So far it just seems like A LOT more work than>>> torrents with a lot more frustration. But everything I've read sings>>> praises over newsgroups much more than torrents so I must be missing>>> something. How is it so easy for everyone else? And how can I sight>>> these files I be to get these great DL speeds everyone talks about???>> >> I don't experience about binary groups; I pretty much only do text groups. But>> as for them (text groups desire this one) most of the e-mail that gets>> through the *server*'s filters is from Google Groups> snip> > Some of the binary groups have hundreds maybe even thousands of posts.> And not a single one is a legitimate post they're all e-mail. I just avoid> groups desire that.> Snip "Andi" <andiflack@blueyonder co uk> wrote innews:N0OMi.239896$xp6.121619@fe3 news blueyonder co uk: > > "meerkat" <man@cov com> wrote in communicate > news:FPvMi.17218$HW.2846@newsfe3-gui ntli net...>>>> "Andrew Flack" <andiflack@blueyonder co uk> wrote in message >> news:gzvMi.63664$BW4.9319@fe1 news blueyonder co uk...> Did try that and it didn't bring home the bacon. It loads the cd goes through the bios> then stops the cd tray ejects and you get the message 'gratify shift> all cd's and diskettes from your drives. gratify turn off your> forge'. Turn the machine on again and we're approve to square one. Any> new ideas? > > Ok go into the bios set bios defaults save changes and reboot. Ishould work then. anthonyberet <nospam@me remove> wrote innews:5md86rFca0neU1@mid individual net: > Blinky the Shark wrote:>> Pennywise@DerryMaine. Gov wrote:>>> anthonyberet <nospam@me remove> wrote:>>>>>>> I have a rather large mbox register of emails (over 700mb).>>>> I want to be able to examine through them all for certain>>>> words. Can anyone advise am app to do it?>>>> Notepad wont change state it as it is too large.>>> Mbox appears to be a unix file>>> >> >> I think some Windows clients use it as well. It probably>> *began* in Unix. I'm pretty sure I was familiar with it from>> Pegmail or something before I ever installed my first bit of>> penguinhood. >> >> > Eudora uses it. This doesn't seem to help me though - I don't> want to believe it in the usual way but to examine it for keywords> and their context. (At 700mb it's too big to read randomnly).> > I don't mind using Linux to read it if needs be but would> prefer something that runs in Win Xp.>

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It is Shabbat at the Western Wall. The sun is setting glistening in amber off the domes of Al-Aksa and the Dome of the Rock. Below streimels ripple in the evening breeze nigunim echo off the surrounding stone women pray quietly behind the high mehitza while beautiful young girls on the plaza glance flirtatiously at groups of teenage boys. All is peaceful. All? Not quite actually far from it. From the beggars pestering tourists for change to teenagers with a little too much leg on display from the haredi monopoly on permissible religious practices to the long-running rebellion against it it seems this holy monument which God is said to have left as a symbol of the eventual return of the Jews from exile has on their return become a symbol of the friction and division within Judaism today. The Wall still has a great appeal for many. For tourists it is the No. 1 attraction in the country. For Israelis it serves the important function of being a center for IDF swearing-in ceremonies and is a place for boys to celebrate their bar mitzvas. The administrators meanwhile have made it accessible to Jews all around the world with a live Web feed from their Internet site. However a single trip to the Wall shows how dominated it is by a single religious sect. On Shabbat you could be forgiven for thinking you had walked into a haredi synagogue. The majority of men praying wear streimels and have peyot. Students from yeshivot march through the promenade arm in arm singing nigunim while many of the women have their heads covered by shawls or wigs. This nonpluralism is grating for members of other streams of Judaism. Rabbi Uri Regev president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism laments that most Israeli Reform Jews have been put off going to the Wall altogether. He agrees that because the Reform Movement's attachment to the Wall is essentially existential as it is for secular Jews - it is significant to them as a fundamental part of their heritage rather than a remnant of the literal home of God - they are less willing to fight for their right to pray there than the Orthodox. However he emphasizes that this does not mean that they have less of an entitlement to the place. "I feel we have a historical responsibility for the takeover of the Kotel by religious fundamentalists," Regev says. "When fundamentalist rule had not been firmly established and separation not just of men and women but also of the different prayer services had not been established the religious emphasis could have shifted drastically from fundamentalism to pluralism. "In 1969 we held a convention in Israel. One proposal was to hold an egalitarian service at the Kotel. However there were vehement verbal assaults thrown at us. Eventually the convention decided to back down. If we had gone through with it. I believe we would have established a precedent that would have developed a pluralist trend." And his feeling of powerlessness is not alone. Becky Brygel is modern Orthodox. She regularly visits the Wall on Shabbat afternoons when she says the prayer area is tranquil and beggar-free. She feels uncomfortable with certain aspects of both the fundamentalist attitude that tries to protect its stranglehold on the Wall and people who use it as a forum to make a political point against the haredim. She recounts a time when she took a group of teenage girls there on the March of the Living. They began to dance together but were attacked by other women who objected to them doing something "non-halachic." "This was the girls' first time down at the Wall and it left a very bad impression with them," she says. "The focus of the Kotel should not be control," Brygel points out. "It is not a banner through which we tell the world which strand of Judaism is dominant it is supposed to be a symbol of unity." THE WALL is state-owned property. However in 1967 prime minister Levi Eshkol decided to hand over its administration to the rabbinate. This has given the rabbi of the Western Wall currently Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz who was appointed by the Chief Rabbinate control over what is permissible practice there. Sitting behind his desk in an office that overlooks the famous site. Rabinowitz looks the epitome of a haredi. Dressed in a black jacket and hat he speaks in pointed tones from behind a thick dark beard. He explains that the Wall should be treated as a unifying factor in Judaism and indeed for the world. Quoting from I Kings 8:41 he says that while the Wall belongs to the Jews it is meant to be a place of worship for people of all nations. This he says means that a person can pray to whichever god he chooses however he must do so whilst respecting the Halacha and the Jewish tradition that dates back to the time of the Second Temple. Therefore according to Rabinowitz a man must wear a kippa as he prays there must be a mehitza separating the women from the men and among other rules women must adhere to they are not allowed to read from the Torah or to sing out loud. But for all his protestations of wishing the Wall to be for all Jews his insistence on these requirements is unpalatable to many. Anat Hoffman is head of the Israel Religious Action Center (which is the legal wing of the Reform Movement) and a member of the Women of the Wall prayer group. "The Kotel can no longer be called a holy place under the existing authorities," she says. She believes that the rabbinate has let the Jewish people down. "They were not able to live up to their rhetoric they were not able to live up to the holiness of the Wall." She is an advocate of a much greater degree of pluralism and a more malleable approach to tradition which would ultimately allow groups such as the Women of the Wall to pray at the Wall freely. For 18 years the Women of the Wall have been fighting for their right to read from the Torah and sing out loud during services which they hold at the Wall every Rosh Hodesh. The group's tactics for promoting change have been described by one of its members as trying to "create facts on the ground." As well as fighting for change through the law courts and publicity campaigns it has held services at the Wall without the authorization of the rabbi. During two consecutive services this combative tactic led fellow female worshipers to insult them attack them and at one point try to steal their Torah. In a landmark decision in 2002 the High Court of Justice decided to allow the Women of the Wall to worship at the Wall as they wished free from hindrance. However after an outcry by the religious parties which tried to impose a law making the Women of the Wall's actions a crime punishable by seven years in jail the government asked the court to review the case saying it could not ensure public safety if the decision stood. The ruling was eventually overturned. Instead the judges decided that Robinson's Arch an area of the wall further to the south would be prepared for alternative prayer services. This has left the Women of the Wall's members far from pleased. They view the fact that they have been allocated a spot far from the main tourist attraction as proof that they are being treated as nothing more than second-class citizens. "Robinson's Arch has no symbolic meaning for the Jewish people," Hoffman says. "It is an archeological dig not a holy site. The government does not even treat it as a holy place. There is no permanent Sefer Torah there as there is at the main plaza." HOFFMAN ARGUES that the whole dispute which stems from haredi reluctance to accommodate other forms of prayer service is illusory anyway. She points out that there is no halachic law which actually prevents women from reading from the Torah or singing aloud. Meanwhile she argues that Rabinowitz's emphasis on tradition is also largely artificial. Sixty years ago during the British Mandate there was no mehitza separating women from men or strict code of prayer. Rabinowitz dismisses Hoffman's arguments. He says that although there is no precise law pertaining to women reading from the Torah what matters is that there is a law stating that one must respect tradition as if it were law. He also says that it is of no importance that there was no mehitza or regulation of prayer service during the British Mandate because at that time there were so few Jews praying there that women and men did not need to intermingle. What matters he says is what practices were adhered to when the Second Temple still stood. Because Jews are using the Wall as a substitute for the Temple they must pray as if it were the Temple in which there was a mehitza and women could not read from the Torah. "The reason God never permitted David to build the Temple was that he was a man of war. He said that no sword must enter His house so He left it to Solomon who was a man of peace to build it," she says. "Yet now Rabinowitz is happy to allow the swearing in of IDF soldiers who are carrying guns to take place in the plaza." The real reason she says that Rabinowitz does not allow the Women of the Wall to pray there is simply territorial. Although the Women of the Wall have proved themselves to be religiously devoted across three decades of protest and have always conducted themselves in a restrained and respectful way she says that the haredim see the Wall as their turf and them as imposing upon it. Not everyone sees it that way. Earl Cox is a prominent American evangelical Christian who has a strong attachment to the Jewish people. For 12 months beginning in January 2004 he went to the Wall to pray for eight hours every day. He was motivated to do it by a commitment to the people of Israel saying. "I believe those who bless Israel will be blessed in turn." Furthermore as a Christian he says that the Wall has great importance for him because it lies at the location of the second coming of Jesus. During his time there he was joined by Christians from all over the world but he never held prayer services or even prayed out loud. He has a reverence for Orthodox Judaism that can be seen in that he calls God by a Hebrew moniker. "Hashem." "I never had any problems with the ultra-Orthodox there," he says. "At the beginning perhaps they resented me being there but I always respected their customs by wearing a kippa and I never tried to convert anybody or to missionize." After a month or so he noticed that they began to respect his dedication. "One rabbi would bring me a doughnut every morning. He would never disturb my prayer; he would just place it down quietly and leave." Cox believes that the haredim have earned the right to control the Wall through their immense dedication to the place. "The ultra-Orthodox are there every day morning and night. It bothers me that people would go after them." And one would be mistaken in thinking that the haredim have it all their own way though. At the opposite end of the spectrum from Hoffman people are afraid that there are too many Jews who do not pay significant respect to the Wall's sanctity. On a Friday night in midsummer a fairly wide dichotomy can be observed between those praying and those standing in the forecourt. Organizations such as birthright take groups of teenagers there every Shabbat in July and August as part of their Israel experience. Many of the girls wear short skirts though they had been asked to dress modestly by their Israeli guides showing off the new shade of bronze that the Middle Eastern summer has bestowed upon them. It is clear that this makes many of the religious men extremely uncomfortable. Haredim can be seen staring at the ground as they march through trying not to glimpse any skin. Rabinowitz says he has had complaints about this from people from all the religious sects and that it has turned into a real problem. Therefore he has proposed placing about 10 women at each of the entrances to make sure girls are dressed modestly as they enter. But Hoffman says that on this issue as well the haredim are only too happy to resort to violence and intimidation as a means of getting their way. Besides she argues. "the Kotel is this young girl's birthright. It should take her doing something very offensive indeed for us to tell her that she should change who she is before she can go there." She dismisses people's anger on this issue as "very trivial." Another sensitive subject which has been brought to the fore this summer (although has been around for a long time) is the many beggars who disturb people as they pray. In the months leading up to the High Holy Days it is impossible to escape them tying ribbons around your hands and asking for spare change. Begging at the Wall has been illegal since 1981 although action is rarely taken to prevent it. Many people suspect the beggars' sincerity since they are almost nonexistent during the low tourist season while others say that such a holy site is not suitable for such practices. Rabinowitz stresses that the act of charity is one of the most important mitzvot that a Jew can perform however he concedes that the beggars have become a major nuisance. What to do about it though is extremely problematic. For a religious movement to be seen manhandling a beggar would be a public relations nightmare. Therefore he has deferred the issue to Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz who is in the process of coming to a decision. Hoffman says that the rabbi of the Wall has always been happy to use the beggars for his own purposes. She recalls a conversation she had with Meir Yehuda. Rabinowitz's predecessor who told her that the only way he could control the religious zealots who tried to disrupt his authority was by allowing some of them to beg in return for keeping a watch over people's activities there. Apparently even among haredim there are territorial squabbles that surface over such seemingly minor things as the exact positioning of tables or bookcases. ANY FIGHT for reform in the way the Wall is managed is likely to be long and arduous since the state provides little backing for it. Former religious affairs minister Shimon Shetreet explains that the law provides almost no basis for an argument advocating change to the Wall's rules based on freedom of religion. He points out that the last basic law to pass in the Knesset in 1991 the Basic Law: Human Dignity made no mention of freedom of religion because of the concern it caused among the religious parties. Meanwhile a bylaw passed in 1981 bestowed upon the administrator of the Wall appointed with the government's authorization the power to eject people who dress inappropriately hand out fliers against his authorization beg or hold an unauthorized religious service. Theoretically the rabbi of the Western Wall is accountable to the Prime Minister's Office for what happens there. But Hoffman complains that the government allows itself to be pressured by the threat of haredi violence. In stark contrast with foreign policy she says that when faced with threats against fellow Jews from Jewish religious fundamentalists the government caves in such as in the case of the Women of the Wall. "They are secular Jews who see Orthodoxy as the 'true' form of Judaism and through this have handed over control of religious affairs to it," she says. The Prime Minister's Office responds that "there is no justification for any violence against worshipers and in the case of violence breaking out law enforcement bodies enforce the law to protect the people concerned." It also points out that millions of shekels were spent on the Robinson's Arch prayer area which at the time of the High Court ruling all the parties involved agreed upon. Where to go from here is not an easy question to answer. Rabinowitz is adamant that there should be no change at the wall and he appears to have the government behind him. His opponents know what they think should happen be it a division of the wall based on partition or time sharing. According to Hoffman the Wall should be turned into a national monument over which no religious group has control. But implementing reform will be difficult. Regev is pessimistic that any change will come soon. "At this point the unholy alliance of religion and state still has a hold on Israel. It is preventing greater accommodation at the Wall and it will continue to for years to come." Muslims and the WallThe Western Wall has a certain controversial significance for Muslims as well as Jews. In Arabic it is called Al-Burak. The name is derived from a ninth-century legend in which Muhammad is said to have left Mecca on a night journey on the back of a winged creature called Al-Burak which took him to the farthest mosque in the lands of Islam the Aksa Mosque. It was said that Muhammad tied up his steed to the wall below from where the connection is derived. In the Mameluke period Islamic scholars tried to ascertain which mosque Al-Aksa was and decided that it was the Jerusalem mosque which bears the name today. At the time it was believed that the wall he tied the creature to was the southern wall which is the closest to the mosque itself. It was only in the early 20th century the link to the Western Wall first began to gain prominence. As the city's Jewish and Muslim communities began to fight for dominance over the site the British Mandatory government decided to institute a "status quo" in which the Jews were allowed to continue to pray there on the condition they did not bring tables or chairs up to the Wall. The 1929 Arab riots in which dozens of Jews were killed broke out in part because Orthodox Jews continued to try to bring a mehitza to the Wall. However according to Moshe Sharon a professor in Islamic history at the Hebrew University the Muslim connection is a complete fabrication. "Jerusalem is unimportant to Islam until someone else wants it," he says. He points out that there is no mention of Jerusalem in the Koran and also denies that there is any mention of the Western Wall in early Islamic writing. "Even the tradition that the Aksa Mosque is the actual mosque to which Muhammad traveled was disputed in the Mameluke period when there were many alternative traditions saying that Al-Aksa was somewhere else." That there was never a mosque built at the Wall nor did Muslims ever pray there even in the early 20th century. Sharon argues is proof of the lack of religious value it actually has for them. The real reason he argues for its rise to prominence was that anti-Zionists led by Haj Amin al-Husseini the grand mufti of Jerusalem an ally of Adolf Hitler saw it as a powerful symbol in the struggle against Jewish statehood. To this day it remains a powerful propaganda tool in the Muslim world. In February 2000. Egypt's leading Muslim authority. Sheikh Nasser Farid Wassel decreed that the Western Wall remain an Islamic endowment forever. Wassel claimed the Burak Wall is a part of the western wall of the Aksa Mosque. 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It is Shabbat at the Western Wall. The sun is setting glistening in amber off the domes of Al-Aksa and the Dome of the Rock. Below streimels ripple in the evening breeze nigunim echo off the surrounding stone women pray quietly behind the high mehitza while beautiful young girls on the plaza glance flirtatiously at groups of teenage boys. All is peaceful. All? Not quite actually far from it. From the beggars pestering tourists for change to teenagers with a little too much leg on display from the haredi monopoly on permissible religious practices to the long-running rebellion against it it seems this holy monument which God is said to have left as a symbol of the eventual return of the Jews from exile has on their return become a symbol of the friction and division within Judaism today. The Wall still has a great appeal for many. For tourists it is the No. 1 attraction in the country. For Israelis it serves the important function of being a center for IDF swearing-in ceremonies and is a place for boys to celebrate their bar mitzvas. The administrators meanwhile have made it accessible to Jews all around the world with a live Web feed from their Internet site. However a single trip to the Wall shows how dominated it is by a single religious sect. On Shabbat you could be forgiven for thinking you had walked into a haredi synagogue. The majority of men praying wear streimels and have peyot. Students from yeshivot march through the promenade arm in arm singing nigunim while many of the women have their heads covered by shawls or wigs. This nonpluralism is grating for members of other streams of Judaism. Rabbi Uri Regev president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism laments that most Israeli Reform Jews have been put off going to the Wall altogether. He agrees that because the Reform Movement's attachment to the Wall is essentially existential as it is for secular Jews - it is significant to them as a fundamental part of their heritage rather than a remnant of the literal home of God - they are less willing to fight for their right to pray there than the Orthodox. However he emphasizes that this does not mean that they have less of an entitlement to the place. "I feel we have a historical responsibility for the takeover of the Kotel by religious fundamentalists," Regev says. "When fundamentalist rule had not been firmly established and separation not just of men and women but also of the different prayer services had not been established the religious emphasis could have shifted drastically from fundamentalism to pluralism. "In 1969 we held a convention in Israel. One proposal was to hold an egalitarian service at the Kotel. However there were vehement verbal assaults thrown at us. Eventually the convention decided to back down. If we had gone through with it. I believe we would have established a precedent that would have developed a pluralist trend." And his feeling of powerlessness is not alone. Becky Brygel is modern Orthodox. She regularly visits the Wall on Shabbat afternoons when she says the prayer area is tranquil and beggar-free. She feels uncomfortable with certain aspects of both the fundamentalist attitude that tries to protect its stranglehold on the Wall and people who use it as a forum to make a political point against the haredim. She recounts a time when she took a group of teenage girls there on the March of the Living. They began to dance together but were attacked by other women who objected to them doing something "non-halachic." "This was the girls' first time down at the Wall and it left a very bad impression with them," she says. "The focus of the Kotel should not be control," Brygel points out. "It is not a banner through which we tell the world which strand of Judaism is dominant it is supposed to be a symbol of unity." THE WALL is state-owned property. However in 1967 prime minister Levi Eshkol decided to hand over its administration to the rabbinate. This has given the rabbi of the Western Wall currently Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz who was appointed by the Chief Rabbinate control over what is permissible practice there. Sitting behind his desk in an office that overlooks the famous site. Rabinowitz looks the epitome of a haredi. Dressed in a black jacket and hat he speaks in pointed tones from behind a thick dark beard. He explains that the Wall should be treated as a unifying factor in Judaism and indeed for the world. Quoting from I Kings 8:41 he says that while the Wall belongs to the Jews it is meant to be a place of worship for people of all nations. This he says means that a person can pray to whichever god he chooses however he must do so whilst respecting the Halacha and the Jewish tradition that dates back to the time of the Second Temple. Therefore according to Rabinowitz a man must wear a kippa as he prays there must be a mehitza separating the women from the men and among other rules women must adhere to they are not allowed to read from the Torah or to sing out loud. But for all his protestations of wishing the Wall to be for all Jews his insistence on these requirements is unpalatable to many. Anat Hoffman is head of the Israel Religious Action Center (which is the legal wing of the Reform Movement) and a member of the Women of the Wall prayer group. "The Kotel can no longer be called a holy place under the existing authorities," she says. She believes that the rabbinate has let the Jewish people down. "They were not able to live up to their rhetoric they were not able to live up to the holiness of the Wall." She is an advocate of a much greater degree of pluralism and a more malleable approach to tradition which would ultimately allow groups such as the Women of the Wall to pray at the Wall freely. For 18 years the Women of the Wall have been fighting for their right to read from the Torah and sing out loud during services which they hold at the Wall every Rosh Hodesh. The group's tactics for promoting change have been described by one of its members as trying to "create facts on the ground." As well as fighting for change through the law courts and publicity campaigns it has held services at the Wall without the authorization of the rabbi. During two consecutive services this combative tactic led fellow female worshipers to insult them attack them and at one point try to steal their Torah. In a landmark decision in 2002 the High Court of Justice decided to allow the Women of the Wall to worship at the Wall as they wished free from hindrance. However after an outcry by the religious parties which tried to impose a law making the Women of the Wall's actions a crime punishable by seven years in jail the government asked the court to review the case saying it could not ensure public safety if the decision stood. The ruling was eventually overturned. Instead the judges decided that Robinson's Arch an area of the wall further to the south would be prepared for alternative prayer services. This has left the Women of the Wall's members far from pleased. They view the fact that they have been allocated a spot far from the main tourist attraction as proof that they are being treated as nothing more than second-class citizens. "Robinson's Arch has no symbolic meaning for the Jewish people," Hoffman says. "It is an archeological dig not a holy site. The government does not even treat it as a holy place. There is no permanent Sefer Torah there as there is at the main plaza." HOFFMAN ARGUES that the whole dispute which stems from haredi reluctance to accommodate other forms of prayer service is illusory anyway. She points out that there is no halachic law which actually prevents women from reading from the Torah or singing aloud. Meanwhile she argues that Rabinowitz's emphasis on tradition is also largely artificial. Sixty years ago during the British Mandate there was no mehitza separating women from men or strict code of prayer. Rabinowitz dismisses Hoffman's arguments. He says that although there is no precise law pertaining to women reading from the Torah what matters is that there is a law stating that one must respect tradition as if it were law. He also says that it is of no importance that there was no mehitza or regulation of prayer service during the British Mandate because at that time there were so few Jews praying there that women and men did not need to intermingle. What matters he says is what practices were adhered to when the Second Temple still stood. Because Jews are using the Wall as a substitute for the Temple they must pray as if it were the Temple in which there was a mehitza and women could not read from the Torah. "The reason God never permitted David to build the Temple was that he was a man of war. He said that no sword must enter His house so He left it to Solomon who was a man of peace to build it," she says. "Yet now Rabinowitz is happy to allow the swearing in of IDF soldiers who are carrying guns to take place in the plaza." The real reason she says that Rabinowitz does not allow the Women of the Wall to pray there is simply territorial. Although the Women of the Wall have proved themselves to be religiously devoted across three decades of protest and have always conducted themselves in a restrained and respectful way she says that the haredim see the Wall as their turf and them as imposing upon it. Not everyone sees it that way. Earl Cox is a prominent American evangelical Christian who has a strong attachment to the Jewish people. For 12 months beginning in January 2004 he went to the Wall to pray for eight hours every day. He was motivated to do it by a commitment to the people of Israel saying. "I believe those who bless Israel will be blessed in turn." Furthermore as a Christian he says that the Wall has great importance for him because it lies at the location of the second coming of Jesus. During his time there he was joined by Christians from all over the world but he never held prayer services or even prayed out loud. He has a reverence for Orthodox Judaism that can be seen in that he calls God by a Hebrew moniker. "Hashem." "I never had any problems with the ultra-Orthodox there," he says. "At the beginning perhaps they resented me being there but I always respected their customs by wearing a kippa and I never tried to convert anybody or to missionize." After a month or so he noticed that they began to respect his dedication. "One rabbi would bring me a doughnut every morning. He would never disturb my prayer; he would just place it down quietly and leave." Cox believes that the haredim have earned the right to control the Wall through their immense dedication to the place. "The ultra-Orthodox are there every day morning and night. It bothers me that people would go after them." And one would be mistaken in thinking that the haredim have it all their own way though. At the opposite end of the spectrum from Hoffman people are afraid that there are too many Jews who do not pay significant respect to the Wall's sanctity. On a Friday night in midsummer a fairly wide dichotomy can be observed between those praying and those standing in the forecourt. Organizations such as birthright take groups of teenagers there every Shabbat in July and August as part of their Israel experience. Many of the girls wear short skirts though they had been asked to dress modestly by their Israeli guides showing off the new shade of bronze that the Middle Eastern summer has bestowed upon them. It is clear that this makes many of the religious men extremely uncomfortable. Haredim can be seen staring at the ground as they march through trying not to glimpse any skin. Rabinowitz says he has had complaints about this from people from all the religious sects and that it has turned into a real problem. Therefore he has proposed placing about 10 women at each of the entrances to make sure girls are dressed modestly as they enter. But Hoffman says that on this issue as well the haredim are only too happy to resort to violence and intimidation as a means of getting their way. Besides she argues. "the Kotel is this young girl's birthright. It should take her doing something very offensive indeed for us to tell her that she should change who she is before she can go there." She dismisses people's anger on this issue as "very trivial." Another sensitive subject which has been brought to the fore this summer (although has been around for a long time) is the many beggars who disturb people as they pray. In the months leading up to the High Holy Days it is impossible to escape them tying ribbons around your hands and asking for spare change. Begging at the Wall has been illegal since 1981 although action is rarely taken to prevent it. Many people suspect the beggars' sincerity since they are almost nonexistent during the low tourist season while others say that such a holy site is not suitable for such practices. Rabinowitz stresses that the act of charity is one of the most important mitzvot that a Jew can perform however he concedes that the beggars have become a major nuisance. What to do about it though is extremely problematic. For a religious movement to be seen manhandling a beggar would be a public relations nightmare. Therefore he has deferred the issue to Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz who is in the process of coming to a decision. Hoffman says that the rabbi of the Wall has always been happy to use the beggars for his own purposes. She recalls a conversation she had with Meir Yehuda. Rabinowitz's predecessor who told her that the only way he could control the religious zealots who tried to disrupt his authority was by allowing some of them to beg in return for keeping a watch over people's activities there. Apparently even among haredim there are territorial squabbles that surface over such seemingly minor things as the exact positioning of tables or bookcases. ANY FIGHT for reform in the way the Wall is managed is likely to be long and arduous since the state provides little backing for it. Former religious affairs minister Shimon Shetreet explains that the law provides almost no basis for an argument advocating change to the Wall's rules based on freedom of religion. He points out that the last basic law to pass in the Knesset in 1991 the Basic Law: Human Dignity made no mention of freedom of religion because of the concern it caused among the religious parties. Meanwhile a bylaw passed in 1981 bestowed upon the administrator of the Wall appointed with the government's authorization the power to eject people who dress inappropriately hand out fliers against his authorization beg or hold an unauthorized religious service. Theoretically the rabbi of the Western Wall is accountable to the Prime Minister's Office for what happens there. But Hoffman complains that the government allows itself to be pressured by the threat of haredi violence. In stark contrast with foreign policy she says that when faced with threats against fellow Jews from Jewish religious fundamentalists the government caves in such as in the case of the Women of the Wall. "They are secular Jews who see Orthodoxy as the 'true' form of Judaism and through this have handed over control of religious affairs to it," she says. The Prime Minister's Office responds that "there is no justification for any violence against worshipers and in the case of violence breaking out law enforcement bodies enforce the law to protect the people concerned." It also points out that millions of shekels were spent on the Robinson's Arch prayer area which at the time of the High Court ruling all the parties involved agreed upon. Where to go from here is not an easy question to answer. Rabinowitz is adamant that there should be no change at the wall and he appears to have the government behind him. His opponents know what they think should happen be it a division of the wall based on partition or time sharing. According to Hoffman the Wall should be turned into a national monument over which no religious group has control. But implementing reform will be difficult. Regev is pessimistic that any change will come soon. "At this point the unholy alliance of religion and state still has a hold on Israel. It is preventing greater accommodation at the Wall and it will continue to for years to come." Muslims and the WallThe Western Wall has a certain controversial significance for Muslims as well as Jews. In Arabic it is called Al-Burak. The name is derived from a ninth-century legend in which Muhammad is said to have left Mecca on a night journey on the back of a winged creature called Al-Burak which took him to the farthest mosque in the lands of Islam the Aksa Mosque. It was said that Muhammad tied up his steed to the wall below from where the connection is derived. In the Mameluke period Islamic scholars tried to ascertain which mosque Al-Aksa was and decided that it was the Jerusalem mosque which bears the name today. At the time it was believed that the wall he tied the creature to was the southern wall which is the closest to the mosque itself. It was only in the early 20th century the link to the Western Wall first began to gain prominence. As the city's Jewish and Muslim communities began to fight for dominance over the site the British Mandatory government decided to institute a "status quo" in which the Jews were allowed to continue to pray there on the condition they did not bring tables or chairs up to the Wall. The 1929 Arab riots in which dozens of Jews were killed broke out in part because Orthodox Jews continued to try to bring a mehitza to the Wall. However according to Moshe Sharon a professor in Islamic history at the Hebrew University the Muslim connection is a complete fabrication. "Jerusalem is unimportant to Islam until someone else wants it," he says. He points out that there is no mention of Jerusalem in the Koran and also denies that there is any mention of the Western Wall in early Islamic writing. "Even the tradition that the Aksa Mosque is the actual mosque to which Muhammad traveled was disputed in the Mameluke period when there were many alternative traditions saying that Al-Aksa was somewhere else." That there was never a mosque built at the Wall nor did Muslims ever pray there even in the early 20th century. Sharon argues is proof of the lack of religious value it actually has for them. The real reason he argues for its rise to prominence was that anti-Zionists led by Haj Amin al-Husseini the grand mufti of Jerusalem an ally of Adolf Hitler saw it as a powerful symbol in the struggle against Jewish statehood. To this day it remains a powerful propaganda tool in the Muslim world. In February 2000. Egypt's leading Muslim authority. Sheikh Nasser Farid Wassel decreed that the Western Wall remain an Islamic endowment forever. Wassel claimed the Burak Wall is a part of the western wall of the Aksa Mosque. He added that the wall would belong to all Muslims "until the end of the Earth

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It is Shabbat at the Western Wall. The sun is setting glistening in amber off the domes of Al-Aksa and the Dome of the Rock. Below streimels ripple in the evening breeze nigunim echo off the surrounding stone women pray quietly behind the high mehitza while beautiful young girls on the plaza glance flirtatiously at groups of teenage boys. All is peaceful. All? Not quite actually far from it. From the beggars pestering tourists for change to teenagers with a little too much leg on display from the haredi monopoly on permissible religious practices to the long-running rebellion against it it seems this holy monument which God is said to have left as a symbol of the eventual return of the Jews from exile has on their return become a symbol of the friction and division within Judaism today. The Wall still has a great appeal for many. For tourists it is the No. 1 attraction in the country. For Israelis it serves the important function of being a center for IDF swearing-in ceremonies and is a place for boys to celebrate their bar mitzvas. The administrators meanwhile have made it accessible to Jews all around the world with a live Web feed from their Internet site. However a single trip to the Wall shows how dominated it is by a single religious sect. On Shabbat you could be forgiven for thinking you had walked into a haredi synagogue. The majority of men praying wear streimels and have peyot. Students from yeshivot march through the promenade arm in arm singing nigunim while many of the women have their heads covered by shawls or wigs. This nonpluralism is grating for members of other streams of Judaism. Rabbi Uri Regev president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism laments that most Israeli Reform Jews have been put off going to the Wall altogether. He agrees that because the Reform Movement's attachment to the Wall is essentially existential as it is for secular Jews - it is significant to them as a fundamental part of their heritage rather than a remnant of the literal home of God - they are less willing to fight for their right to pray there than the Orthodox. However he emphasizes that this does not mean that they have less of an entitlement to the place. "I feel we have a historical responsibility for the takeover of the Kotel by religious fundamentalists," Regev says. "When fundamentalist rule had not been firmly established and separation not just of men and women but also of the different prayer services had not been established the religious emphasis could have shifted drastically from fundamentalism to pluralism. "In 1969 we held a convention in Israel. One proposal was to hold an egalitarian service at the Kotel. However there were vehement verbal assaults thrown at us. Eventually the convention decided to back down. If we had gone through with it. I believe we would have established a precedent that would have developed a pluralist trend." And his feeling of powerlessness is not alone. Becky Brygel is modern Orthodox. She regularly visits the Wall on Shabbat afternoons when she says the prayer area is tranquil and beggar-free. She feels uncomfortable with certain aspects of both the fundamentalist attitude that tries to protect its stranglehold on the Wall and people who use it as a forum to make a political point against the haredim. She recounts a time when she took a group of teenage girls there on the March of the Living. They began to dance together but were attacked by other women who objected to them doing something "non-halachic." "This was the girls' first time down at the Wall and it left a very bad impression with them," she says. "The focus of the Kotel should not be control," Brygel points out. "It is not a banner through which we tell the world which strand of Judaism is dominant it is supposed to be a symbol of unity." THE WALL is state-owned property. However in 1967 prime minister Levi Eshkol decided to hand over its administration to the rabbinate. This has given the rabbi of the Western Wall currently Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz who was appointed by the Chief Rabbinate control over what is permissible practice there. Sitting behind his desk in an office that overlooks the famous site. Rabinowitz looks the epitome of a haredi. Dressed in a black jacket and hat he speaks in pointed tones from behind a thick dark beard. He explains that the Wall should be treated as a unifying factor in Judaism and indeed for the world. Quoting from I Kings 8:41 he says that while the Wall belongs to the Jews it is meant to be a place of worship for people of all nations. This he says means that a person can pray to whichever god he chooses however he must do so whilst respecting the Halacha and the Jewish tradition that dates back to the time of the Second Temple. Therefore according to Rabinowitz a man must wear a kippa as he prays there must be a mehitza separating the women from the men and among other rules women must adhere to they are not allowed to read from the Torah or to sing out loud. But for all his protestations of wishing the Wall to be for all Jews his insistence on these requirements is unpalatable to many. Anat Hoffman is head of the Israel Religious Action Center (which is the legal wing of the Reform Movement) and a member of the Women of the Wall prayer group. "The Kotel can no longer be called a holy place under the existing authorities," she says. She believes that the rabbinate has let the Jewish people down. "They were not able to live up to their rhetoric they were not able to live up to the holiness of the Wall." She is an advocate of a much greater degree of pluralism and a more malleable approach to tradition which would ultimately allow groups such as the Women of the Wall to pray at the Wall freely. For 18 years the Women of the Wall have been fighting for their right to read from the Torah and sing out loud during services which they hold at the Wall every Rosh Hodesh. The group's tactics for promoting change have been described by one of its members as trying to "create facts on the ground." As well as fighting for change through the law courts and publicity campaigns it has held services at the Wall without the authorization of the rabbi. During two consecutive services this combative tactic led fellow female worshipers to insult them attack them and at one point try to steal their Torah. In a landmark decision in 2002 the High Court of Justice decided to allow the Women of the Wall to worship at the Wall as they wished free from hindrance. However after an outcry by the religious parties which tried to impose a law making the Women of the Wall's actions a crime punishable by seven years in jail the government asked the court to review the case saying it could not ensure public safety if the decision stood. The ruling was eventually overturned. Instead the judges decided that Robinson's Arch an area of the wall further to the south would be prepared for alternative prayer services. This has left the Women of the Wall's members far from pleased. They view the fact that they have been allocated a spot far from the main tourist attraction as proof that they are being treated as nothing more than second-class citizens. "Robinson's Arch has no symbolic meaning for the Jewish people," Hoffman says. "It is an archeological dig not a holy site. The government does not even treat it as a holy place. There is no permanent Sefer Torah there as there is at the main plaza." HOFFMAN ARGUES that the whole dispute which stems from haredi reluctance to accommodate other forms of prayer service is illusory anyway. She points out that there is no halachic law which actually prevents women from reading from the Torah or singing aloud. Meanwhile she argues that Rabinowitz's emphasis on tradition is also largely artificial. Sixty years ago during the British Mandate there was no mehitza separating women from men or strict code of prayer. Rabinowitz dismisses Hoffman's arguments. He says that although there is no precise law pertaining to women reading from the Torah what matters is that there is a law stating that one must respect tradition as if it were law. He also says that it is of no importance that there was no mehitza or regulation of prayer service during the British Mandate because at that time there were so few Jews praying there that women and men did not need to intermingle. What matters he says is what practices were adhered to when the Second Temple still stood. Because Jews are using the Wall as a substitute for the Temple they must pray as if it were the Temple in which there was a mehitza and women could not read from the Torah. "The reason God never permitted David to build the Temple was that he was a man of war. He said that no sword must enter His house so He left it to Solomon who was a man of peace to build it," she says. "Yet now Rabinowitz is happy to allow the swearing in of IDF soldiers who are carrying guns to take place in the plaza." The real reason she says that Rabinowitz does not allow the Women of the Wall to pray there is simply territorial. Although the Women of the Wall have proved themselves to be religiously devoted across three decades of protest and have always conducted themselves in a restrained and respectful way she says that the haredim see the Wall as their turf and them as imposing upon it. Not everyone sees it that way. Earl Cox is a prominent American evangelical Christian who has a strong attachment to the Jewish people. For 12 months beginning in January 2004 he went to the Wall to pray for eight hours every day. He was motivated to do it by a commitment to the people of Israel saying. "I believe those who bless Israel will be blessed in turn." Furthermore as a Christian he says that the Wall has great importance for him because it lies at the location of the second coming of Jesus. During his time there he was joined by Christians from all over the world but he never held prayer services or even prayed out loud. He has a reverence for Orthodox Judaism that can be seen in that he calls God by a Hebrew moniker. "Hashem." "I never had any problems with the ultra-Orthodox there," he says. "At the beginning perhaps they resented me being there but I always respected their customs by wearing a kippa and I never tried to convert anybody or to missionize." After a month or so he noticed that they began to respect his dedication. "One rabbi would bring me a doughnut every morning. He would never disturb my prayer; he would just place it down quietly and leave." Cox believes that the haredim have earned the right to control the Wall through their immense dedication to the place. "The ultra-Orthodox are there every day morning and night. It bothers me that people would go after them." And one would be mistaken in thinking that the haredim have it all their own way though. At the opposite end of the spectrum from Hoffman people are afraid that there are too many Jews who do not pay significant respect to the Wall's sanctity. On a Friday night in midsummer a fairly wide dichotomy can be observed between those praying and those standing in the forecourt. Organizations such as birthright take groups of teenagers there every Shabbat in July and August as part of their Israel experience. Many of the girls wear short skirts though they had been asked to dress modestly by their Israeli guides showing off the new shade of bronze that the Middle Eastern summer has bestowed upon them. It is clear that this makes many of the religious men extremely uncomfortable. Haredim can be seen staring at the ground as they march through trying not to glimpse any skin. Rabinowitz says he has had complaints about this from people from all the religious sects and that it has turned into a real problem. Therefore he has proposed placing about 10 women at each of the entrances to make sure girls are dressed modestly as they enter. But Hoffman says that on this issue as well the haredim are only too happy to resort to violence and intimidation as a means of getting their way. Besides she argues. "the Kotel is this young girl's birthright. It should take her doing something very offensive indeed for us to tell her that she should change who she is before she can go there." She dismisses people's anger on this issue as "very trivial." Another sensitive subject which has been brought to the fore this summer (although has been around for a long time) is the many beggars who disturb people as they pray. In the months leading up to the High Holy Days it is impossible to escape them tying ribbons around your hands and asking for spare change. Begging at the Wall has been illegal since 1981 although action is rarely taken to prevent it. Many people suspect the beggars' sincerity since they are almost nonexistent during the low tourist season while others say that such a holy site is not suitable for such practices. Rabinowitz stresses that the act of charity is one of the most important mitzvot that a Jew can perform however he concedes that the beggars have become a major nuisance. What to do about it though is extremely problematic. For a religious movement to be seen manhandling a beggar would be a public relations nightmare. Therefore he has deferred the issue to Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz who is in the process of coming to a decision. Hoffman says that the rabbi of the Wall has always been happy to use the beggars for his own purposes. She recalls a conversation she had with Meir Yehuda. Rabinowitz's predecessor who told her that the only way he could control the religious zealots who tried to disrupt his authority was by allowing some of them to beg in return for keeping a watch over people's activities there. Apparently even among haredim there are territorial squabbles that surface over such seemingly minor things as the exact positioning of tables or bookcases. ANY FIGHT for reform in the way the Wall is managed is likely to be long and arduous since the state provides little backing for it. Former religious affairs minister Shimon Shetreet explains that the law provides almost no basis for an argument advocating change to the Wall's rules based on freedom of religion. He points out that the last basic law to pass in the Knesset in 1991 the Basic Law: Human Dignity made no mention of freedom of religion because of the concern it caused among the religious parties. Meanwhile a bylaw passed in 1981 bestowed upon the administrator of the Wall appointed with the government's authorization the power to eject people who dress inappropriately hand out fliers against his authorization beg or hold an unauthorized religious service. Theoretically the rabbi of the Western Wall is accountable to the Prime Minister's Office for what happens there. But Hoffman complains that the government allows itself to be pressured by the threat of haredi violence. In stark contrast with foreign policy she says that when faced with threats against fellow Jews from Jewish religious fundamentalists the government caves in such as in the case of the Women of the Wall. "They are secular Jews who see Orthodoxy as the 'true' form of Judaism and through this have handed over control of religious affairs to it," she says. The Prime Minister's Office responds that "there is no justification for any violence against worshipers and in the case of violence breaking out law enforcement bodies enforce the law to protect the people concerned." It also points out that millions of shekels were spent on the Robinson's Arch prayer area which at the time of the High Court ruling all the parties involved agreed upon. Where to go from here is not an easy question to answer. Rabinowitz is adamant that there should be no change at the wall and he appears to have the government behind him. His opponents know what they think should happen be it a division of the wall based on partition or time sharing. According to Hoffman the Wall should be turned into a national monument over which no religious group has control. But implementing reform will be difficult. Regev is pessimistic that any change will come soon. "At this point the unholy alliance of religion and state still has a hold on Israel. It is preventing greater accommodation at the Wall and it will continue to for years to come." Muslims and the WallThe Western Wall has a certain controversial significance for Muslims as well as Jews. In Arabic it is called Al-Burak. The name is derived from a ninth-century legend in which Muhammad is said to have left Mecca on a night journey on the back of a winged creature called Al-Burak which took him to the farthest mosque in the lands of Islam the Aksa Mosque. It was said that Muhammad tied up his steed to the wall below from where the connection is derived. In the Mameluke period Islamic scholars tried to ascertain which mosque Al-Aksa was and decided that it was the Jerusalem mosque which bears the name today. At the time it was believed that the wall he tied the creature to was the southern wall which is the closest to the mosque itself. It was only in the early 20th century the link to the Western Wall first began to gain prominence. As the city's Jewish and Muslim communities began to fight for dominance over the site the British Mandatory government decided to institute a "status quo" in which the Jews were allowed to continue to pray there on the condition they did not bring tables or chairs up to the Wall. The 1929 Arab riots in which dozens of Jews were killed broke out in part because Orthodox Jews continued to try to bring a mehitza to the Wall. However according to Moshe Sharon a professor in Islamic history at the Hebrew University the Muslim connection is a complete fabrication. "Jerusalem is unimportant to Islam until someone else wants it," he says. He points out that there is no mention of Jerusalem in the Koran and also denies that there is any mention of the Western Wall in early Islamic writing. "Even the tradition that the Aksa Mosque is the actual mosque to which Muhammad traveled was disputed in the Mameluke period when there were many alternative traditions saying that Al-Aksa was somewhere else." That there was never a mosque built at the Wall nor did Muslims ever pray there even in the early 20th century. Sharon argues is proof of the lack of religious value it actually has for them. The real reason he argues for its rise to prominence was that anti-Zionists led by Haj Amin al-Husseini the grand mufti of Jerusalem an ally of Adolf Hitler saw it as a powerful symbol in the struggle against Jewish statehood. To this day it remains a powerful propaganda tool in the Muslim world. In February 2000. Egypt's leading Muslim authority. Sheikh Nasser Farid Wassel decreed that the Western Wall remain an Islamic endowment forever. Wassel claimed the Burak Wall is a part of the western wall of the Aksa Mosque. 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