Jerusalem police detain woman at Western Wall for wearing prayer shawl “incorrectly”
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Jerusalem Police detained a woman for nearly four hours on Thursday for wearing a tallit, or prayer shawl, “incorrectly” at the Western Wall.
Deb Houben, a native of Boston, was taken aside by police after concluding a prayer service celebrating the beginning of the Hebrew month with 65 other people from Women of the Wall, an organization that campaigns for the equal right to pray publicly at Judaism’s most holy site.
Many of the women participating in the service were also wearing prayer shawls, but Houben was detained for wearing hers “incorrectly” – meaning wrapped around her shoulders, rather than draped across her neck like a scarf.