Women challenge exclusion by Orthodox practices at Israel’s Western Wall

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Following arrests of women at the wall, a potentially groundbreaking plan could allow for non-Orthodox services in the site.

April 10, 2013 A man holds up a Torah scroll as women stand behind a fence at Jerusalem's Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site. The rabbi of the prayer site has backed a proposal to establish a prayer section for mixed-gender worship, a groundbreaking motion that could end a decades-old fight against Orthodox monopoly of the site. Sebastian Scheiner/AP

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