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From Back of the Bus, Israeli Women Fight Segregation
EL AVIV—For years, Israeli women have been pressured into moving to the rear of public buses serving strictly religious Jews. Now, in confrontations reminiscent of the era of Rosa Parks, women are pushing back. Israel’s Bus Battle View Slideshow European Pressphoto AgencyIsraeli women protesting a gender-segregation campaign by ultra-Orthodox Jews sat at the front of […]
American Girl Target of Extremist Jews in Israel
December 27, 2011
Orthodox Israelis Spit On Whorish 8-Year-Old Girl For Going To School
December 27, 2011
An American girl attempting to walk to her Jewish school in Israel is subjected to daily taunting and physical intimidation so bad that she says it makes her afraid to go to school. Her tormenters aren’t fellow children, but rather adult men upset by the presence of the “immodest” girls attending school in their ultra-Orthodox […]
Israeli city braces for 10,000-strong protest against exclusion of women
December 27, 2011
Ultra-Orthodox clashed with police officers, calling them Nazis over course of Monday; at least six were arrested or detained for questioning. Ultra-Orthodox men in Beit Shemesh trying to keep police from removing a sign ordering women to walk on the other side of the street – for the third time this week. Photo by Olivier […]
Israeli women fight back against Jerusalem billboard vandals
December 2, 2011
Women in UK and US urged to send photographs of themselves to counter ultra-orthodox campaign against images of women Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem Shira Ben-Sasson Furstenberg: We’re experiencing a snowball effect.’ Photograph: New Israel Fund Jewish women in the Britain and the US are being urged to send photographs of themselves holding signs saying “women […]
When ‘modest’ becomes extreme
December 2, 2011
When the ‘Taliban women’ phenomenon finally reached Mea She’arim, the rabbis of the extremist Edah Haredit took notice and condemned it. But what was it that initially drove ultra-Orthodox women to cover themselves up almost hermetically? Young girls on a Jerusalem street. Photo by Alex Levac His tall stature and dress – the striped robe […]
Former Israeli President to Serve 7 Years for Rape (Israel)
November 10, 2011
Moshe Katsav will be sentenced in January Former President Moshe Katsav was ordered to serve seven years for rape and other sex crimes. Katsav is the highest ranking Israeli official ever to be sentenced to prison. A unanimous vote ended the dark history of the office. Katsav, 65, was convicted last December for raping a […]
Mea She’arim to ban women from certain Jerusalem streets during Sukkot
October 11, 2011
Large billboards posted throughout capital’s ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods this week forbade women during the celebration, despite court order. By Oz Rosenberg | Jerusalem residents choosing etrogs at a traditional four-species market ahead of the Sukkot holiday. Photo by Gili Cohen Magen The ultra-Orthodox community in Mea She’arim is planning to impose gender segregation in the Jerusalem […]
January 5, 2012
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