Replica of Western Wall Planned in Kansas

Pro-life leaders in Wichita, Kansas plan to build a full-scale replica of Jerusalem’s Western Wall, writes The Jewish Daily Forward’s Naomi Zeveloff. The replica will “be fronted by 60 crosses, each one representing 1 million aborted fetuses.” Rabbi Michael Davis is critical of the the plan, saying, “I see it as another example of a non-Jewish group taking a Jewish symbol and reinterpreting it for their own private use and thereby bastardizing it.”

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