The Conservative movement is calling for a halt to the expansion of the prayer area at the Western Wall. The movement’s Israeli branch is calling on Israel’s Religious Affairs Ministry to halt the expansion, which it says would expand separate-sex prayer areas and turn the Western Wall Plaza into an Orthodox synagogue.
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