Regarding “Sharansky’s Mission Impossible” (Editor’s column, Jan. 25), in Tel Aviv, where secularism dominates, nobody objects to also having single-sex beach areas
We need an area of the Western Wall, a place that would be and feel like part of the “real” Western Wall,” where women and men could pray together with completely equal religious rights.
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is rabbi of Congregation B'nai Israel in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the editor of "The Mussar Torah Commentary" and "The Social Justice Torah Commentary" (CCAR Press, 2020 and 2021).
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