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Pure prayer

Monday 06 June 1994 23:02 BST
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(First Edition)

A rabbi ruled that women may not pray while cleaning house, AP reports from Jerusalem. Women's hands and clothing should be clean while they pray, according to Rabbi Shamai Grass, of the Belz Hasidic sect.

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