Israel’s Supreme Court ordered the state and Israel’s Conservative movement to find a compromise over egalitarian prayers at the Western Wall. The compromise should be made in the next month, the court said Monday. The area in question, called Robinson’s Arch, is an area at the southern end of the Western Wall where non-Orthodox groups have been praying in recent years.
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