“We don’t discuss politics, gossip or slander,” declared the billboard, located on a busy thoroughfare in the ultra-orthodox suburb of Ramat Beit Shemesh. “We should distance ourselves from everything having to do with the elections as if from fire,” one cartoon boy on the billboard was portrayed saying. “My father told me that he also…
In the 10 years I’ve lived in Beit Shemesh, I have seen things I thought I’d never see. I’ve seen signs telling women what to wear and signs ordering them to walk down a specific staircase. I’ve seen young girls spit on and called shiksas. I’ve been spit on, for trying to protect these girls….
Israeli archeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman-era road near Bet Shemesh. The road is up to 20 feet wide at its widest and is just under a mile long. It travels roughly the same path as Israel’s Highway 375, which crosses through Bet Shemesh and part of the West Bank. According to the Israel Antiquities…
A group of Beit Shemesh women fighting to remove “modesty signs” plastered around their city won a key battle in court. The Jerusalem District Court gave Beit Shemesh Mayor Moshe Abutbul three weeks to remove the illegal signs and to act more vigilantly against offenders. Some of the signs instruct women how to dress, requiring…
No, this isn’t a dementor, or a modern art installation. This isn’t even, as you are more likely to expect, a Muslim woman wearing a burqa. It was on a sweltering hot day, of 80 degree weather, that photographer Yakov Lederman saw this sight in Beit Shemesh — a Jewish woman and her two daughters, a…
A secular school in Bet Shemesh that was divided to allow a haredi Orthodox girls school to have classes in the building will become a completely haredi school. The secular Safot V’Tarbuyot School, or School for Languages and Culture, located in a haredi Orthodox neighborhood in Bet Shemesh, was under capacity by more than 300…
A haredi Orthodox girls school that began operating on one floor of secular school in Beit Shemesh must vacate the building. Under an agreement struck with the Jerusalem District Court, the Mishekenot Da’at school will move out of the second floor of the of the secular Safot VeTarbuyot school and operate out of mobile classrooms…
The city of Beit Shemesh ordered the removal of a wall that had been set up inside a local elementary school to separate its secular and Orthodox pupils. The corrugated galvanized iron wall was erected last week in the yard of the secular Safot VeTarbuyot school to separate its pupils from girls attending the Haredi…
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