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 December, 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 worshippers. Some of the gathering were attendees of the concurrent International Jewish Feminists Conference. In the center, These two women are probably not Orthodox Jews since they are showing their bare arms.