A mechitza in Judaism is a partition, particularly one that is used to separate men and women.
Separation between men and women at the Western Wall
This mechitza was created for the Suburban Torah Center in Livingston, New Jersey, and features etched glass ornamentation.
View over the mechitza from the women's balcony of the B'nai Jacob Synagogue (Ottumwa, Iowa)
Orthodox Judaism is the collective term for the traditionalist branches of contemporary Judaism. Theologically, it is chiefly defined by regarding the Torah, both Written and Oral, as revealed by God to Moses on Mount Sinai and faithfully transmitted ever since.
A Jewish man pilloried in the synagogue, a common punishment in the pre-emancipation Jewish community in Europe.
Moses Sofer of Pressburg, considered the father of Orthodoxy in general and ultra-Orthodoxy in particular.
Isaac Bernays in clerical vestments. The ministerial style of dress seen here was ubiquitous among German and Western European (neo)-Orthodox Jews.
Young Samson Raphael Hirsch, the ideologue of Orthodox secession in Germany.