Israel – The High Court of Justice today told the transport ministry to look into problems on bus routes in Orthodox areas that separate men and women, following the petition of the religious author Naomi Regen and the Religious Action Center.
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A number of female passengers said they were humiliated and even attacked for not using seats reserved for women at the back of some publicly-funded buses or because of their clothing.
Justices Elyakim Rubinstein, Salim Joubran and Yoram Danziger stopped short of ordering bus companies to stop the "mehadrin" lines but asked the transport ministry to form a committee within 30 days to study the problems and recommend changes.
"We think the transportation minister should create such a forum as soon as possible to allow him to hear from the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) public and from the petitioners and their supporters," the court said. [haaretz]
me sitting next to a woman doesn’t mean i have my head in the sand. actually it’s you that has your head in the sand because you have to grow up and realize that now-a-days it is not considered innapropriate for men and women to sit next to eachother, and the too much “n’giya” can be prevented if you really wanted it to. The seats on buses are not so small that you’re sitting roghjt up againsgt the person next to you…
There’s a funny story about [the late] Actor/Comedian Sammy Davis Jr. getting on a bus [somewhere] in the South (of the USA, dummy). The Bus driver told him to sit in the back of the bus. When Sammy davis told him that he’s Jewish, too, the busdriver told him to get off [the bus].
Mark Levin that you try to imitate has no problem to sit next to a woman and i dont either have that problem. My head is not in the sand because you believe differently then i do, in fact your head is in the sand that you can not tolerate someone else’s beliefs
there would be no problem if they would have just talked nice instead of using force-ragen is an instigater-just look at her books
It is not proper for u as a frum person to sit next to a women if you are male. There is far too much n’giya that could happen. If you think not, you have your head in the sand.
who says its not proper?
(mutar)?? But not proper
Mixed seating on buses is halachically correct (mutar).
The first thing I did when I saw who this Naomi lady really was, was to cancel any email subscription I had to her magazines etc.
Perhaps Eged should have the seperate buses under a different name such as “Halachikly Correct Bus Company.”