… On Rosh Hodesh Heshvan, the last dam was breached. Representatives of liberal movements, who at the start cooperated with the prime minister’s attempts to find a solution acceptable to all sides, shirked their historic responsibility to this sensitive site and joined the demonstrators for a provocative march of the Women of the Wall.

I do not know how to describe the shame of seeing tens of men and women violently making their way to the traditional women’s section while holding Torah scrolls as shields.

I do not know how to repair the chilul Hashem, the desecration of God’s name, that results when a street fight breaks out at the gates of the Western Wall and the world sees and listens.