Petah Tikva – Gender Segregations at Some Municipal Hanukkah Shows

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    FILE - Kadima party members marched today, December 21, 2011, from the Supreme Court the Knesset To protest against  exclusion of women in Israel. Photo by Uri Lenz/FLASH90 Petah Tikva – Some parents have complained that a city-sponsored Hanukkah show at the municipal performing arts center will not have mixed seating for boys and girls.

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    One of three performances of “Moti Halamotai,” which is geared to children from age 4, is to be presented with the separate seating and is being publicized as such.

    A municipal spokesperson acknowledged that one show would have separate seating and explained that it was geared toward the city’s ultra-Orthodox community. Municipal sources have also said that two other evening shows that are geared for families are also to feature separate seating, meaning that of seven special performances over the holiday, three will feature separate seating by gender.

    One Petah Tivka resident, Leah, who described herself as religious, expressed surprise at having to sit separately from her 11-year-old grandson at a show she wanted to attend. Females, she was told, would sit in the balcony. “It’s so insulting and humiliating,” she said, “and after all, it’s a children’s show.”

    Sources at the Petah Tikva Municipality said programming in which boys and girls are separated has been held there for several years. Particularly due to the low ticket prices for the Hanukkah shows, it also attracts less strictly observant religious people.

    “The municipality doesn’t have to cooperate with sexual discrimination,” said Leah. “And of all times, it is on Hanukkah, the festival of lights, that we are seeing darkness.”


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    MosheM
    MosheM
    12 years ago

    And the secular incitement continues.

    YOELYG
    YOELYG
    12 years ago

    Mrs’ leah: if this is a citi sponsord show you can’t complain its a jewish state & they folowing jewish & torah law’s, if you not happy make with your own money a show or move to india & nobody will bother you

    lbpss
    lbpss
    12 years ago

    No need to put women on balcony split hall in half with mechitza. This lady can go to mixed show so why she complaining

    jakyw
    jakyw
    12 years ago

    Where in the Torah does it say husband and wives can’t sit together or parents and children? I repeat if you don’t want to sit mixed then don’t, but don’t impose your chumras on the rest of us!

    heissezali
    heissezali
    12 years ago

    i dnt understand what they want?? would we go in to disney land and scream y theres no mechitzh by the shows?? ofcourse not!! if u dont wanna sit seperate then dnt come!! go to other shows, theres more then enuf! y impose ur secular ideals on us??