“. . . several women have been harassed, humiliated, taunted and even physically assaulted on the buses. In December a Canadian Orthodox Jew was on a non-Haredi bus line en route to the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, when she was assaulted by an ultra-Orthodox man for refusing to move to the back of the bus. She has signed on to the suit.‘She was physically hurt, beaten very hard,’ said Orly Erez-Likhowski, an attorney with the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism, who is leading the legal fight against the Ministry of Transportation and the Egged bus company, a quasi-private line heavily subsidized by the state.”
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“The de facto Haredi bus restrictions [which force women to the back of the bus], she says, help men focus on their family — and their wife — and avoid distractions.”
& Having a 300 lb man screaming at a woman to move to the back of the bus is not “distracting”? Cheers to Naomi Ragen for standing her ground and offering logic and reason against another terrible attempt to portray women as less than human.
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