Top Israeli rabbi: Segregated buses not Jewish law

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"One of Israel's chief rabbis ventured into the divisive question of gender segregation on Monday, saying separate seating for men and women on buses and similar practices adopted by some devout Jews are not required by Jewish law.

Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar spoke after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was quoted by Israeli media as expressing shock over the segregated buses and other practices of radicalized religious activists.

In an interview with the ultra-Orthodox Kol Brama radio station, Amar was critical of these relatively new and controversial practices.

"People who do it do it for their own sakes," he said of the segregated buses. "Certain people want to delineate a fence, perhaps because they saw a need for it. But it's not Jewish law."

Radical activists have segregated buses, cowed advertisers into removing images of women from posters on the streets of cities with large ultra-Orthodox Jewish populations, shunted women onto separate sidewalks and walked out of military events where women have sung. Some women have taken to dressing head-to-toe, in the fashion of Islamist fundamentalists, a practice that Amar also said was elective."

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Israel's Supreme Court has outlawed gender segregation on buses and sidewalks, but some transit routes and public spaces remain segregated in practice.

Amar said Clinton's knowledge of the situation was incomplete.

"If she were to learn from the right people ... she would know that the people of Israel respect women and turn them into veritable queens and princesses," he said.

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Clinton learning from the wrong people..hmm.

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2. Religious fundies.

Religious extremest and Fundies are all dangerous,whether Jewish,Christan or Muslims,they are all on the same page,even though christians and Jews will resent such comparisons.
Get rid of God and religion and it would eliminate most of the hate and intolerance and Violence in the name of God and religion that has been plaguing the earth for past two thousand plus years, and before