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Life Offbeat Israel: Gay Pride Brings Religious Zionists to Arab Neighborhoods
Here in Israel, there has been no shortage of secular-religious tensions in recent weeks. As the Bintel Blog discussed here, there have been the turf wars of Ramat Aviv where secular residents fear a Haredi takeover. More recently we’ve had violence over recreation. Haredi residents of Jerusalem, where there is no public transport on Shabbat,…
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Life Offbeat Israel: Posh Tel Aviv Residents Protest Haredi Influx
When the people of Ramat Aviv are taking to the streets in protest, you know the end really must be nigh. The high-life-living residents of this exceedingly wealthy Tel Aviv neighborhood are more likely to be seen corking a fine bottle of wine than waving a banner. So what has happened in the past couple…
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Life It’s the End of Jerusalem as We Know It, and Israelis Feel Fine
In an anguished column, Ha’aretz’s Uzi Benziman warns that Jerusalem — Israel’s capital and the spiritual heart of world Jewry — is being ceded to its ultra-Orthodox population: For years the Jewish/ultra-Orthodox component in the Jerusalem landscape has been increasingly crowding out the colorful mosaic that characterized it in the past. Not only secular and…
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Music Are Haredi Women Taking Their Cues From Outkast?
Some ultra-Orthodox women are defiantly taking seats at the back of Israeli buses in the name of what they see as religiously mandated gender-segregation. What’s more, as the Forward reports, some of them (or at least one of them) are comparing their actions to those of civil rights legend Rosa Parks. Let’s set aside the…
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Life The Haredim Are Right!: Topless DJ’s Shouldn’t Be Used To Sell Deodorant
Ha’aretz reports: A recent marketing campaign for Unilever’s Axe deodorant for men raised the hackles of the ultra-Orthodox community when the corporation sponsored a poolside party for teens, DJed by a topless Hungarian disc jockey flown in for the event, and attended by other partially-clad young women. Unsurprisingly, despite Unilever’s written apology to the Haredi…
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