re: #323 Alouette

It is actually not forbidden for a woman to wear talis and tefillin if she wishes to do so, in the privacy of her own home or at a private gathering of women. However, doing so in an ostentatious display at a public place where some hotheads are sure to get pissed off is just attention whoring.

That poor kid who put on tefillin on an airplane and freaked people out, was just clueless. These women know exactly what they are doing. And it is certainly wrong to freak out and feed them the martyr cookies they are addicted to.

Putting tefillin on in a plane and praying at the Kotel are two completely different things.

My most humble of opinions, no one has any business telling someone else who is not being disrepectful in the least, what to wear when they pray.