For years, Israeli women have been pressured into moving to the rear of public buses serving strictly religious Jews. Now, in confrontations reminiscent of the era of Rosa Parks, women are pushing back.
Israeli women protesting a gender-segregation campaign by ultra-Orthodox Jews sat at the front of a bus in Jerusalem on Jan 1.
Read the whole story in Wall Street Journal, posted 5 January
For years, Israeli women have been pressured into moving to the rear of public buses serving strictly religious Jews. Now, in confrontations reminiscent of the era of Rosa Parks, women are pushing back.
Israeli women protesting a gender-segregation campaign by ultra-Orthodox Jews sat at the front of a bus in Jerusalem on Jan 1.
Read the whole story in Wall Street Journal, posted 5 January