How do I get my elderly relatives to stop driving?
Bintel says honor them by keeping them safe. Here's how to help figure out if it’s time to take away the car keys.
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Israel News Ultra-Orthodox Mom Fired for Getting Driver’s License To Help Disabled Daughter
JERUSALEM — A haredi Orthodox teacher in a girls’ school in the largely haredi West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit reportedly was fired from her long-time position after obtaining a drivers’ license. The woman obtained the driver’s license in order to more easily transport her disabled daughter, the haredi Orthodox news website Kikar Shabbat reported…
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Breaking News Israeli Driver On Track to Make NASCAR History
Alon Day could make history as the first Israeli to drive in a NASCAR national series race. Day, a 24-year-old from Ashdod, Israel, is poised to make his debut in the NASCAR Xfinity Series on Aug. 13 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, USA Today reported Saturday. The Xfinity Series is NASCAR’s second-tier league, behind…
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Life The False Reasoning Behind the Hasidic Ban on Women Driving
Last week, a ban issued by the Belz Hasidic community against its women driving, backed up by the threat that children of offenders will be expelled from school, unleashed a media frenzy. All the major British national papers and news outlets, along with numerous foreign media rushed to cover a story that is more naturally…
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Breaking News British Belz Hasidim Bar Women From Driving
The Hasidic Belz sect of Britain has barred women members from driving. A letter sent out last week by the sect’s rabbinic leaders said that allowing women to drive goes against “the traditional rules of modesty in our camp,” the Jewish Chronicle reported Thursday. The letter also said that as of August students would not…
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Life Ban Me From Driving — Please!
Frimet Goldberger’s children enjoy their recent family road trip. She admits being happy to get out of the driver’s seat for good. Road-tripping is one of those overly romanticized activities we read about and want to — no, positively have to — add to our bucket lists. Get in a car — instant Kerouac. Or…
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Breaking News Saudi Women Defy Ban on Driving
A few women filmed themselves driving in Saudi cities on Saturday, defying government warnings of arrest and prosecution to take part in a campaign against men-only road rules, activists said. But some others stayed at home, put off by phone calls from men who said they were from the Interior Ministry, reported organisers of the…
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Breaking News Saudi Activists Set for Women Driving Protest Day on October 26
A group of Saudi activists has begun another campaign for the lifting of a ban on women driving, urging women to get behind the wheel on Oct. 26 in defiance, according to its website. The “October 26 Driving” campaign says it has gathered 8,700 signatures for a petition it published on Sept. 21. “If the…
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