A Haredi woman resists moving to the back of the bus

I caught this video fairly late in the incident. The woman, who is wearing a black and white blouse, is sitting with her back to the window. She has resisted moving to the back of the bus. As the bus pulls away, others at the top express their agreement with her refusal to move.

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• Jerusalem
• Israel
• bus
• discrimination
• segregation

[Rahel]

SunRsaturn, this isn't about beauty contests. The most respected interpreter of Jewish law in the United States, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, ruled that men and women do not need to sit separately on public transportation -- and that if a man feels that he cannot control his impulses on public transportation, then he should stay at home.

Such separation has nothing to do with modesty, and everything to do with power and control.

[Rahel]

@soldiertocop: Even though my first impulse was to remove your comment the moment I saw it, I'm leaving it up because it says far more about you than it says about Jews or Muslims. I also hope that readers will not judge the army or the police force by your words, since the people I know in both places are much finer people than the person you have shown yourself to be in your comment. Or maybe you're just drunk?

[BowieLovinJew]

Good for her!

[TheMina31]

@marionetemanJ Yes I do! With all my heart! As a matter of fact these STUBBORN Jews, know it too, but been quite since 2006...ask them WHY???

[marionetemanJ]

@TheMina31 Do you know that Christianity is correct? The world around us reveals that G-d DOES exist, and the historical evidence reveals that Jesus Christ really did come to this earth and there is overwhelming evidence that Jesus Christ really did physically rise from the dead. Jesus is coming again and the signs of the end times that were foretold in the Bible are coming to pass.

[TheMina31]

@TheIkawatay LOL

[velvetbc]

I can't believe this is happening in ISRAEL ...we read in another recent case on the net about Israel... : "She held her ground - even after a male POLICE OFFICER dispatched to the scene asked her if she was 'willing to respect them and move to the back."...!!!...I didn't know this is happening in Israel !!

[TheIkawatay]

We need to send rosa parks to israel!

[Jetthunder23]

@Rahel well said Rahel.