Native Texan III
11-11-2011, 06:07 PM
US taxpayers are still propping up and funding a country where religious bigots impose their ignorance on a claimed democratic equal society:
"Members of Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community Haredi believe that men should not listen to the female voice in song, because it may arouse impure thoughts. "
Segregation of men and women is common on several Jerusalem public bus lines, despite a recent court ruling that banned the practice. The custom has spread to the public health system, with medical practices offering separate entrances and waiting rooms for men and women. In parts of the city orthodox Jews imposed separate sidewalks for men and women during the Jewish feast of Sukkot, forcing the police to intervene and to dismantle the roadside barriers.
In response to the orthodox prohibition against women singers. Hila Bunyovich-Hoffman has announced a Tel Aviv street protest in which a group of women will stand in public and sing, to make their voices heard.
http://www.freemuse.org/sw45136.asp
"Members of Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community Haredi believe that men should not listen to the female voice in song, because it may arouse impure thoughts. "
Segregation of men and women is common on several Jerusalem public bus lines, despite a recent court ruling that banned the practice. The custom has spread to the public health system, with medical practices offering separate entrances and waiting rooms for men and women. In parts of the city orthodox Jews imposed separate sidewalks for men and women during the Jewish feast of Sukkot, forcing the police to intervene and to dismantle the roadside barriers.
In response to the orthodox prohibition against women singers. Hila Bunyovich-Hoffman has announced a Tel Aviv street protest in which a group of women will stand in public and sing, to make their voices heard.
http://www.freemuse.org/sw45136.asp