The chairperson of the Women of the Wall prayer group Anat Hoffman was released from police custody on Monday afternoon, after being taken in for questioning for allegedly defying the High Court ruling outlawing women from reading from the Torah at the Western Wall.
Women of the Wall Public Relations Director Michelle Handelman told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that Hoffman was not reading from the Torah, but only holding it, which is not against the law according to the ruling.
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was holding the Torah in the women's section and walked out with it. The Kotel Police told her to stop and she didn't. They tried to forcefully remove the Torah from her hands. They almost ripped the Torah from it's covering. They were physical. People fell and they pushed her the entire time."
The prayer meeting at the women's section of the wall was attended by several dozen women, some of whom later convened in protest outside of the nearby Keshla Police Station where Hoffman was being investigated.
Whole article at http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=181166
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