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Arutz Sheva reports on my neighbors [go here for background on why visits by Jews to the Temple Mount are controversial, and the split on the propriety of such visits among Orthodox rabbis]:

 (IsraelNN.com) A group of about 30 Jews from the Rinat Yisrael congregation in Teaneck, New Jersey, headed by Rabbi Yosef Adler, went up on the Temple Mount this week, guided by Chairman Yehuda Glick of the Temple Mount and Temple Heritage Fund.

Glick told Arutz Sheva “The police made every effort to cast a shadow on the visit, including dividing the group into two, such that the second of the two groups had to wait for an hour in the rain and cold until the first group finished.” He added that the group was subjected to being photographed by the police.

In the rain and cold? And they had to have their picture taken! Where’s Human Rights Watch when you need them?

Maybe now they’ll have some sympathy for these women:

Conservative Jewish leaders called for the letter-writing campaign to Ambassador Michael Oren after Nofrat Frenkel, an Israeli medical student and observant Conservative Jew, was detained and interrogated by Israeli police in November while wearing a prayer shawl and carrying a Torah during a prayer service held by Women of the Wall, an activist group, in the women’s section of the Wall.

In January, Anat Hoffman, director of Reform Judaism’s Israel Religious Action Center and leader of Women of the Wall, was taken to a Jerusalem police station, where she was interrogated and fingerprinted, and informed that she might be charged with a felony for violating rules of conduct at the Western Wall.