US Teen Contest Winners Reflect On Praying With WOW

By Renee Ghert-Zand, The Times of Israel, January 3, 2014
The three American Jewish teens who won a contest to join the Women of the Wall at the Kotel Thursday say they will neve...
Eliza Moss-Horwitz, Lucy Sattler and Alexandra Schwartz pray with Women of the Wall. Schwartz (right) holds an empty Torah cover beneath her prayer book, symbolizing the Torah scroll the group was prevented from bringing in to the Kotel plaza.
Eliza Moss-Horwitz, Lucy Sattler and Alexandra Schwartz pray with Women of the Wall. Schwartz (right) holds an empty Torah cover beneath her prayer book, symbolizing the Torah scroll the group was prevented from bringing in to the Kotel plaza.

By Renee Ghert-Zand, The Times of Israel, January 3, 2014

The three American Jewish teens who won a contest to join the Women of the Wall at the Kotel Thursday say they will never forget the experience. Eliza Moss-Horwitz, Lucy Sattler and Alexandra Schwartz were brought to Israel by Moving Traditions, a Philadelphia-based organization advocating for a more expansive view of gender in Jewish learning and practice.

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