Tag: Gender Segregation

Joseph Kaplan, a retired attorney and Modern Orthodox intellectual, offers a collection of writings spanning over half a century in "A Passionate Writing Life."
Three Orthodox Jewish passengers were ordered off a JetBlue flight after they changed seats.
In this podcast episode titled "Hunka Hunka Burning Parliament," the focus is on the post-Yom Kippur repentance fest and the resignation of Speaker of the House of Commons, Anthony Rota, who apologized for inviting a Nazi into Parliament.
Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Square became a battleground for religion and gender segregation on Yom Kippur due to a failed response from the Israeli police and the Tel Aviv municipality.
In this article, the author discusses two incidents where the media reported allegations against Orthodox Jews without verifying the facts.
Dr. Yofi Tirosh warns that Israel's new far-right government, supported by ultra-Orthodox parties, poses a threat to the rights of Israeli women.
In this episode, Noah Efron, Don Futterman, and Allison Kaplan Sommer discuss three main topics: the controversy over an Israeli musician covering his eyes with duct tape to avoid seeing women dancing and whether this should be condemned, the struggle of Israel's Left to convey their patriotism effectively to fellow citizens, and the diminishing importance of Hanukkah as a Zionist and political holiday in Israel.
Dr. Shayna Weiss, a post-doctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University, explores the beginnings of gender segregation at Israeli beaches with host Gilad Halpern.
In this edition, Allison, Don, and Noah delve into the topics of doctors' public political expressions, the judging of judges by lawyers in Israel, and the recent El Al flight incident involving an ultra-Orthodox man refusing to sit next to a woman.
After years of delays and challenges, an Orthodox women's EMT corps named Ezras Nashim is set to launch in Brooklyn to cater to the needs of observant Jewish women who may feel uncomfortable being tended to by male EMTs due to religious modesty concerns.