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I just found an interesting blog that collects stories on religion and state in Israel. I had thought that nothing could surprise me any more, until I saw the following:
Rabbis: Light rail train 'a disaster for Judaism'

Ultra-Orthodox Rabbinical Transportation Committee strongly opposes new form of transportation in Jerusalem, saying it constitutes `a huge step backwards on a worldly, spiritual level alike'

As far as I can tell, the main problem is that it might replace seggregated buses, but I still don't really get it.
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Wed Sep 3rd, 2008 at 04:47:36 PM EST
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The ultra-orthodox do seem to have got a bee in their bonnets in the last few years about mixing with women. Feminists have tried to protest, because the discrimination is illegal. But they cannot get any official support, the ultras can do what they like.

All very islamic if you ask me, should they request support from Saudi Arabia ?

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Sep 3rd, 2008 at 05:16:24 PM EST
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Why go to Saudi Arabia, when they can get inspiration from Rosa Parks:
It also has sparked a row over who may lay claim to the legacy of Rosa Parks, the African-American civil rights activist who famously refused to obey an Alabama bus driver's order to give her seat to a white passenger. Opponents of segregation say the mantle is theirs. But enthusiasts for segregation have begun to argue that by making their way to the back of the bus, they are actually Parks's heirs.

"I see Haredi women who sit at the back as being the Israeli Rosa Parks," said writer Shira Leibowitz Schmidt, one of the leading proponents of segregation. "We see it as a stand against the deterioration of standards in the public arena, and view the chance to sit at the back without men gazing at us as a form of empowerment."

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Wed Sep 3rd, 2008 at 05:26:15 PM EST
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Stockholm syndrome. Feminist history is littered with the arguments of women who embraced their oppression, claiming it as liberating. It's like islamic women arguing for the veil. fine for them, but what about those who want freedom to choose ? Who insist, rightly, that hiding away from men does not liberate, it imprisons.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Sep 3rd, 2008 at 05:33:50 PM EST
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