'Haredim To Continue Running Buses Segregating Men, Women'

[Purveyor]

Ultra-Orthodox groups announced on Sunday they would continue to run a bus route segregating men and women in Jerusalem, Israel Radio reported.

The announcement came despite efforts by the Transportation Ministry to prevent the operation of the publicly-funded bus route that runs from the capital's Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) neighborhoods to the Western Wall.

The Rabbinic Committee for Transportation Affairs began operating the route on Thursday, according to Israel Radio. It said the ministry had threatened the companies that ran the buses.

For its part, sources in the ministry were quoted by Israel Radio as saying action on the matter was pending a High Court decision, and that a joint committee with ultra-Orthodox members is also examining the issue.

The High Court of Justice in January told the ministry to look into problems on the bus routes, following the petition of the religious author Naomi Ragen and the Religious Action Center.

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HAARETZ: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072945.html

[IndianaGreen]

1. Becoming a little like Saudi Arabia, aren't we?

Saudi clerics want women banned from TV, media

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3798682

What sort of women gave birth to boys that grew up to hate women? They should all have been strangled with the umbilical chord.

[Chulanowa]

2. It's not a birth thing

What we have here is a bunch of people worshiping a misogynistic "god" in the midst of what amounts to a modern-day warrior culture.

[Purveyor]

3. It would seem so... eom