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Israel To Women:
To The Back Of The Bus
ERIC J. GREENBERG SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
A
ttention, Jewish women: to revert to such fundamentalism
Go sit in the back of the is totally unacceptable."
bus.
But some women, while ob-
That's the message the jecting to segregation, said they
Israeli government sent after understood the needs of the Or-
giving a green light to official seg- thodox community.
regation on public buses that
"We have to think of the Cha-
pass through the Orthodox com- sidic world and how they are un-
munity of Bnei Brak, and soon comfortable," said Doris
routes in Jerusalem.
Feinstein, an Orthodox woman
The buses will have separate from Queens who works for the
entrances, in front for men and women's organization Amit.
in back for women, according to
But, she added, "I personally
a decision by Transportation would feel terribly uncomfortable
Minister Yitzchak Levy, a mem- to ride such a bus."
ber of the National Religious Par-
Jewish feminist activist Aviva
t-Y.
Cantor also had
Rabbi Avraham
mixed feelings.
Ravitz, a member
"There is an up
of the United
side and a down
Torah Judaism
side," she said.
party, said the seg-
'The fact that men
regation was for
and women will sit
the women's own
separately in the
good.
bus is not in and of
"It
protects
itself a bad thing."
them from being
But the down
disturbed by men
side "is that it's the
who want to take
back of the bus
advantage [of a
where you have all
crowded bus] to
the fumes and
push women," he
where it's hotter.
said.
Why should
Ism
ar
Schorsch:
But Israeli and
women be penal-
Fears splits In Israel.
Diaspora Jewish
ized by having to
women expressed outrage.
sit in the back" Cantor said, spec-
"Public transportation as a ve- ulating that women had no input
hicle for inequality is unaccept- into the decision.
able," said Knesset member
Indeed, several women raised
Naomi Chazan, adding the action the question of why the men are
would be appealed to the getting the preferred seats.
Supreme Court.
Yael Carmi, a kindergarten
"Oh, my God," exclaimed not- teacher from Bnei Brak who said
ed feminist writer Letty Cottin she was observant but not Or-
Pogrebin when informed of the thodox, said seating should not
news. "Besides evoking the obvi- be assigned.
ous echoes of blacks sitting in the
"It is public transportation, so
back of the bus, for me it evokes everyone should have a choice of
signs in hotels that said No Jews where they can sit," she said,
and No dogs allowed."'
addineWhy women in the back
"It's taking you back to the and not in the front?"
Middle Ages," declared a New
But Aviva Weiss, a 19-year-old
York Reform Jewish woman who bus passenger wearing a long
gave her name as Celia. "Women sunflower dress, said she didn't
are more than baby machines." mind taking a back seat.
The back-of-the-bus ruling is
"I would never sit next to a
the latest salvo in the ongoing man because it is not modest,"
war between the Orthodox and she said.
non-Orthodox over the role of re-
In Bnei Brak, informal segre-
ligion in Israel. Recent incidents gation has been practiced
have included the attacks on on some bus routes for the past
Conservative Jews praying at the two years. A sign near the dri-
Western Wall and the running ver's seat shows an arrow point-
bat over closing Bar-Ilan Street ing to the rear of the bus and in
in Jerusalem during the Sabbath bold black letters, the word
"I don't see it as a women's is- "women."
sue — it's a human issue," said
Bus driver Gilad Baruch, dri-
Anne Lapidus Lerner, vice chan- ving the Bnei Brak route for 10
cellor for the Jewish Theological years, said the government made
Seminary, the Conservative uni- a mistake in getting involved. "If
versity in New York. "I thought it is official, women will be told
the issue of separate entrances more aggressively to move to the
concerning race was over in this back. As it is now, it flows natu-
country at least 50 years ago, and rally," he said.