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Organizer calls the muted, melancholic service a 'corrective experience' after last year's reading of the Book of Lamentations was overrun by ultra-Orthodox extremists
After zealots overran egalitarian prayers, PM stressed non-Orthodox Jews' right to worship at site, but that will only be proven if cops quash such interruptions on Saturday night
Compromise resolution voted through unanimously, including with support from ultra-Orthodox rabbi who has previously backed protests against Women of the Wall
From the blog of Phil M. Cohen at The Times of Israel
Ultra-Orthodox boys and men disrupted prayer services at the egalitarian section of the Western Wall as police stood by; those in attendance say it shook their connection to Israel