 Conflicts over prayer at the national monument began little more than a year after Israel ’ s victory in the Six @-@ Day War once again made site accessible to Jews . In July 1968 the World Union for Progressive Judaism , which had planned the group 's international convention in Jerusalem , appealed to the Knesset after the Ministry of Religious Affairs prohibited the organization from hosting mixed @-@ gender services at the Wall . The Knesset committee on internal affairs backed the Ministry of Religious Affairs in disallowing the Jewish convention attendees , who had come from over 24 countries , from worshiping in their fashion . The Orthodox hold that services at the Wall should follow traditional Jewish law for segregated seating followed in synagogues , while the non @-@ Orthodox perspective was that " the Wall is a shrine of all Jews , not one particular branch of Judaism . " 
