Saturday, January 27, 2007

Women sent to the back

Rules that forbid public contact between men and women have led to demands from ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel that female bus passengers sit at the back - and some bus companies have given in, according to this report on haaretz.com. Six women have now asked the High Court of Justice to instruct the Transportation Ministry to study whether there's a need for "segregated" buses and, if so, to limit their number and label them so that women can choose not to use them. So the boys can travel around in splended isolation!.....

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