'Kosher' bus line operating in Tel Aviv

[Scurrilous]

Line 322, which leaves from city with most liberal reputation in Israel, forces women to sit in back

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3870022,00.html

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"A bus line that separates between men and women has begun operating in Tel Aviv, odd news for many who consider it Israel's capital of liberality and equality.

Connex line 322, a licensed bus line, travels from Tel Aviv through Bnei Brak and terminates its route in Ashdod. Women sit in the back and men sit in the front.

"All those who are educated according to the halacha maintain separation," says Yisrael as he waits at the bus stop. "Even in New York you can see single-sex buses."

Moshe Neiman, who travels to Ashdod on line 322, says its customers understand why separation is necessary. "There is almost no conflict here. Most understand the separation and know there are reasons for it," he says.

When asked what happens when passengers do not agree to the rules he answers, "Sometimes it's a difficult process, but in the end they get the message."

[Ken Burch]

1. Er...the term "kosher" refers to the dietary laws, not every aspect of Judaism

The line would only be "kosher" if it forbade passengers to eat pork, shellfish, cheeseburgers and animals without cloven hooves while riding.

It would be accurate, however, to call it a "misogynistic, paranoid, hate-based" bus line.

[Posteritatis]

2. The article itself uses halakha, which I believe is the correct term. (nt)

[Ken Burch]

5. then my comment refers to the headline.

n/t.

[azurnoir]

3. true enough but I'll wager

they ban bacon cheeseburgers too :hi:

[Ken Burch]

4. Well yeah, but then every busline everywhere does that.

n/t.

[Ken Burch]

6. It's especially worrying that this has been done in Tel Aviv

It was Jerusalem, traditionally, were the ultrareligious set up shop. Tel Aviv, back in the day, was the urban base of secular, democratic Labor Zionism(the other base, of course, being the kibbutz).

[provis99]

7. so can a non-Jewish guy sit with the Jewish women?

Good way to meet Jewish babes trying to squeeze next to a Hasidic guy sitting next to her!