Women of the Wall says it will defy ban on saying kaddish Israeli Knesset member Tamar Zandberg wears a prayer shawl while dancing at a prayer service for Rosh Hodesh, which marks the beginning of the Hebrew month of Nisan, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel, March 12, 2013. More than a hundred women prayed with The Women of the Wall as Ultra-Orthodox men shouted from the opposite side of the fence separating men and women at the Western Wall. The Women of the Wall calls for the rights of women to pray at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site without restrictions as Orthodox Judaism forbids women to wear prayer shawls and tefillin or dance and sing in public. UPI/Debbie Hill. JERUSALEM, April 4 (UPI) -- A group challenging the female role in Judaism said Thursday its members will defy a ban on women saying kaddish at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Anat Hoffman, a spokeswoman for Women of the Wall, said the group was especially angry about the timing of the ban, The Jerusalem Post reported. District Police Chief Yossi Pariente issued the order this week, shortly before the beginning of Iyar, a month that includes Holocaust Remembrance Day and the day of remembrance for Israeli soldiers who have fallen defending the country. Kaddish is the Jewish mourning prayer. Hoffman called the remembrance days "the days which symbolize more than anything else the unity surrounding the collective fate of the Jewish people." The Western Wall or Wailing Wall in Jerusalem's Old City is a remnant of the Second Temple, which was destroyed by the Romans.