Western Wall Gender Confusion at The Irish Times

UPDATE 2

The Irish Times has amended its story, removing the reference to “the holiest site in Judaism” in the text and removing the reference to the men’s section in the photo caption.

UPDATE

It’s not only The Irish Times that has published an incorrect photo caption. The LA Times has done exactly the same. This, despite the fact that the original photo on the Getty Images site does have the correct caption information.

Yet again, another incorrect reference to the Western Wall as Judaism’s holiest site, this time in The Irish Times. (The Western Wall is the holiest site that Jews are able to pray at while the Temple Mount is actually the holiest site.)

What makes this story particularly “special” is the accompanying photo caption.

The caption reads: “Jewish women pray at the men’s section of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem’s Old City.”

As things currently stand, men pray in the men’s section and women pray in the women’s section, while there is the option for egalitarian prayer at nearby Robinson’s Arch. There is certainly no option for women to pray in the men’s section.

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