Equal Wall

From the DW:

"Israel approves mixed-sex prayer site at Jerusalem's Western Wall"

 

The Israeli government has voted to allow mixed prayer for women alongside men at Jerusalem's Western Wall, despite Orthodox objections. A women's reform group has called the move "groundbreaking." Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel's cabinet had reached a "creative decision" to build a new plaza for mixed gender prayer at the Jewish holy site, also known as the Wailing Wall.  The new plaza, estimated to cost around $9 million (8.3 million euros), will replace a temporary platform where for years the Women of the Wall group held monthly non-Orthodox prayers - practices regarded by ultra-Orthodox Jews as a provocation. Shira Pruce, spokeswoman for the Women of the Wall, said the historic decision was "groundbreaking for both women's rights and Jewish pluralism in Israel" after three decades of campaigning. Traditional and separated men's and women's sections will remain at the Wall's northern end, while the mixed gender section will be situated at its southern end.

 

 

^  This is a great solution. Not only does it allow men and women to pray separately if they want to, but it also allows men and women to pray together if they choose. No one looses anything they had before (except the right to pray together if they want.) ^

 

http://www.dw.com/en/israel-approves-mixed-sex-prayer-site-at-jerusalems-western-wall/a-19014811