Threatening graffiti was spray-painted on the Jerusalem home of a longtime board member of Women of the Wall.
Some of the graffiti sprayed the night of May 20 on the door and stairwell of Peggy Cidor’s apartment read in Hebrew “Women of the Wall are wicked,” “Peggy, your time is up,” “Peggy, we know where you live,” and “Jerusalem is holy,” according to the Women of the Wall.
It was the first incident of its kind targeting Cidor, who has served on Women of the Wall’s board for 15 years. The rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinowitz, condemned the graffiti in a statement that called on “all fanatic groups to remove their hands from this holy place.”
Haredi Orthodox women and men mobbed Women of the Wall’s May 10 prayer service. Despite police protection, men threw chairs, stink bombs and garbage at the female worshipers.
It was the group’s first monthly service at the wall following the ruling of a Jerusalem District Court judge that its services do not violate the law. — jta