<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://forward.com/news/344480/watch-ultra-orthodox-rip-up-prayer-book-to-protest-western-wall-bat-mitzvah/?attribution=our-picks-2-title">http://forward.com/news/344480/watch-ultra-orthodox-rip-up-prayer-book-to-protest-western-wall-bat-mitzvah/?attribution=our-picks-2-title</a><br><div><br></div><div>the commentors here have a fairly viscious back and forth.  but regardless of the propriety of ripping up the WoW's books from a social standpoint , isn't it clear halachically that the prayer books have no kedusha , nor other seforim even if the Shem is in them?</div></div>