Rosa Parks
Hasidic Woman Channels Rosa Parks
Crossposted from Haaretz
Clinton Shocked at Israeli Women's Status
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton compared Israel’s treatment of women with that of Iran. She cited soldiers’ boycotts of women’s singing and back-of-the-bus seating.
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.