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Jewish Women Want To Wear BURQA
Secular vs religious tensions rise as women fight segregation in Jewish Halacha law.
On New Year's Eve, thousands of Ultra Orthodox men came out in protest
of what they called religious prosecution. In recent weeks, tensions in
Israel between religious and secular Jews escalated after Israel's main
TV news, Channel 2 filed a report. It showed Ultra Orthodox men in the
city of Beit Shemesh attacking an 8-year old Orthodox girl for not dressing
modestly enough. The report sparked nation-wide outrage and brought
thousands to Beit Shemesh in protest. The Real News' Lia Tarachansky
spoke to Rabbi Uri Regev of Hiddush as well as to Member of Knesset
Tzipi Livni, the leader of the opposition and MK Sheli Yechimovitch, the
leader of the Labor Party.
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Re: Jewish Women Want To Wear BURQA
This is interesting.
The currrent battle for the international opinion is about acceptance of Israel as a Jewish state. However, this short video shows that the Ashkenazi Zionist battle in Israel is about internal recognition of Israel as a Zionist state, the authority of which must not be undermined by the religious Jews.
I have no particular sympathy with the orthodox Jews but it is intereting to notice that they, who often settled long before other Jews may face a marginalization which one day may be compared with that of the present day's Palestinians.
Maybe Deuteronomy 28:44 may give us some ideas of what is happening?