Yes, it’s come to this in Israel. Women from Hebrew University now ride buses through religious neighborhoods specifically to test whether a recent court decision that – get ready for it – women don’t, like blacks in America before Rosa Parks, have to sit at the back of the bus is actually being honored.
Internships are available for American college students:
Amy Milin, a recent Florida Atlantic University graduate, rode 60 buses during her three-month internship… “There were times a group of people crowded around me and said I don’t belong here and I’m ruining their religion,” she said.
These women are on the front lines of gender justice. That these battles have to be fought in Israel is a shondah.
July 22nd, 2011 at 2:54PM
Not only in Israel: Fundies in the US seem to have a problem with women, too:
http://reason.com/archives/2011/07/22/wheres-hillary
July 22nd, 2011 at 3:00PM
Absolutely, econprof.