Women Of The Wall Group Prays At Archeological Garden In Jerusalem In 1988 Editorial Image

Devout Jewish women praying as a group at the Archeological Garden adjacent to the Kotel, or Western Wall, Judaism's holy site, in November, 1988. The group had been denied access to pray as a group at the kotel, even on their own side of the mehitza, or low wall which separates men and women worshipers. Some of the gathering were attendees of the concurrent International Jewish Feminists Conference. In the center, wearing a gray jacket and kippah is Susan Alter, the first Orthodox Jewish woman elected to the New York City Council.