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The hardest part of Lucia Da Silva's bat mitzvah wasn't learning her Torah portion, but facing pressure from a mob of strangers not to recite it at the Western Wall.
An American teen was harassed by haredi Orthodox protesters during her bat mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem last week.
Thousands of black-attired young yeshiva students swarmed a group of about 100 women and a dozen men who accompanied them to the Western Wall.
Lucia da Silva celebrates milestone despite catcalls and commotion during monthly Women of the Wall reading for Rosh Hodesh; no arrests reported