The women’s section at Jerusalem’s Western Wall is to be expanded. Responding to requests by female worshipers at Judaism’s most important shrine, Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski this week ordered the women’s section expanded to make it equal in size to the men’s section.
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