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You're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Rachel Gilman

We're going back to 1988 when a small group of Jewish feminists demanded the right to pray as freely as Jewish men at one of Judaism's

holiest sites. They called themselves the women, the 13th regulation of the law of holy places.

One cannot perform a religious act contrary to local custom which offends the feelings of others.

For many Israeli women, this brought the point home.

Who decides what is local custom?

Who decides what offends the feelings of others?

Who gave them the keys?

And it's time to take the keys back.

Anat Hoffman is one of the founding members of Women of the Wall, an organization made up of every Jewish

denomination including Reform, Conservative and Orthodox Jews.

Its focus is one of the holiest sites in Judaism, the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

It's one of Judaism's most sacred sites.

It comes with strict orthodox traditions. worshippers segregated according to sex.

The Western Wall is a site that is important in Islam as well as Judaism.

It's the only structure that remains of the supporting wall of the second Jewish temple on Temple Mount, an area of East Jerusalem that Israel took control of in 1967. I have seen only the fighting in Jerusalem and I have seen quite a lot of that.

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