Haredim interrupt American boy’s Western Wall bar mitzvah, tear up prayer books
Dozens of ultra-Orthodox hardliners disrupted a boy’s bar mitzvah ceremony in the egalitarian Wailing Wall square on Thursday morning, shouting over the service, calling worshipers ‘Nazis’, ‘Christians’ and ‘animals’ “, hissing and tearing prayer books, according to witnesses. “Everything was really, really ugly,” said Laura Ben-David, who was hired by the family to photograph the … Read more