A reflection in a bus window in Israel, where ultra-Orthodox Jews are getting aggressive in trying to impose religious rules.
(Sebastian Scheiner/Associated Press/File 2011)
Israeli leaders, rabbis decry effort to seat women in rear of buses
Ultra-Orthodox persist in defying 2010 court ruling
A reflection in a bus window in Israel, where ultra-Orthodox Jews are getting aggressive in trying to impose religious rules.
(Sebastian Scheiner/Associated Press/File 2011)
Israel’s political leaders and chief rabbis yesterday condemned persistent efforts by ultra-Orthodox Jewish men to shunt Israeli women to the back of public buses, a year after the country’s Supreme Court outlawed the practice. The outcry came in reaction to an Israeli woman’s experience of being asked to move to the back of a bus, which was posted on Facebook and became a cause celebre in the Israeli media yesterday. The case drew a rebuke from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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