Unless Israel blows up us (and the wall) then the Jews will go back to being a peaceful minority, only rarely interfered with. Whether the owners of the wall will forgive them for all the misery Israel has inflicted is, of course, another matter.

ALSO: provocation = “incitement”

Her actions were a political stunt aimed at provocation

No, actually prayer is not political. It is spiritual. But when someone stops you from praying THEY make it a political issue & remove it from the realm of religion & spirituality. It wasn’t Nofrat Frenkel who introduced the police into the situation. It was the Orthodox religious mafia that did that.

This wasn’t some random Jewish woman seeking to pray at the Kotel

You’re half right. She wasn’t a random Jewish woman (interesting phrasing as if all Jewish women were interchangeable), but rather a brave, courageous woman willing to brave jail and arrest for her religious convictions. And you’re wrong because she was in fact praying at the Kotel. Prayer should not be political. It should be religious. And women should be entitled to pray in the same way Jewish men have for centuries. If Orthodox rabbis want to maintain there customs they may do so–as long as they allow those Jews whose practice constitutes the vast majority of the rest of the Jews in the world to do so according to their own conscience. There is plenty of space at the Kotel to allow diff. groups to daven according to their own dictates. But the proble is that the Orthodox want to control the space & maintain their monopoly, which is quite a political act.

making a political argument against traditional Judaism

They are making a RELIGIOUS argument against Orthodox intolerance & hate of their fellow Jews who don’t share their beliefs.

This wasn’t some random Jewish woman seeking to pray at the Kotel according to her religious convictions.

This group and its members are concerned with making a political argument against traditional Judaism rather than sincere prayer.

I don’t see how I’m going to find the time to write the book

Come, come. It will be such a loss to human knowledge. Are you sure we can’t persuade you otherwise? Take up a collection perhaps to support you while you’re on yr fearless trip to expand the understanding of anti-Semitism. Just remember to spell my name right and give a link to my blog.

you are a foulmouthed fanatic

Poor boy. I didn’t know I hurt your feelings and without even any 4 ltr words! A bit thin skinned, are we?

On the other hand, don’t hold your breath. I don’t see how I’m going to find the time to write the book anytime soon, both because writing of any sort is only a small segment of what I do (I’ve got a business to run, a life to live, etc), but also because in the meantime I’ve found other topics that interest me more.

Whether you’re an antisemite or not, you are a foulmouthed fanatic, incapable of understanding complexity, profoundly intolerant, and surrounded by readers even more distasteful than yourself. Watching you and them is interesting for the window it gives into the minds of your particular splinter of the American political scene, but after a (short) while it becomes repetitive and boring.

So you don’t need to trouble yourself with banning me. I’m out of here. Goodbye.

Dr. Yaacov Lozowick
Jerusalem