Israel’s Top Military Rabbi Slams Gender Discriminating Orthodox Jews
Good for General Rafi Peretz for standing up against these misogynistic Jewish groups that are pushing a bass-ackward and completely misinterpreted Jewish traditions to force women into the back of the bus, public segregation and other related matters:
Israel’s chief military rabbi has condemned ultra-Orthodox Jews who discriminate against women and pledged such behaviour will not be tolerated in the armed forces, media reported on Friday.
Radio stations and websites said Brigadier General Rafi Peretz had sent officers a memorandum denouncing as “immoral” a slew of acts such as the verbal abuse of a young female soldier for refusing to sit at the back of a public bus and attempts to segregate a town’s pavements.
“Of late there is a grave phenomenon of discrimination against women both outside the army and within it,” public radio quoted him as saying.
“I’m working to ensure that radical, wrong notions, such as those which inspired the events in Beit Shemesh, will not permeate the army,” he wrote according to news website Ynet.
Beit Shemesh, a town of 80,000 near Jerusalem, has been witnessing a wave of clashes between ultra-Orthodox activists and other residents.
On Thursday night, hundreds of activists there torched refuse bins, blocked streets and stoned police sent to disperse them, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP.
“There were several hundred who took part in the disturbances,” he said. “Three people were arrested.”