Ultra-Orthodox Jews Attack Buses With Ads On Female Worship At Holy Site

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Monday night’s attack underscores the simmering tensions in Israel over religious extremists who want to separate the sexes in public spaces.

By TIA GOLDENBERG
Oct. 21, 2014 7:31 AM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Dozens of ultra-Orthodox Jews hurled stones and slashed the tires of buses bearing ads promoting female worship at a key Jerusalem holy site, Israeli police said Tuesday.

The attack, which happened on Monday night in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood, underscores the still simmering tensions in Israel over religious extremists who want to separate the sexes in public spaces.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police units were dispatched to quell the violence in Mea Shearim where about 50 men slashed tires and pelted the buses with stones.

The ads were posted by the group Women of the Wall, which seeks to achieve gender equality at the Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray. The advertisements showed girls and women wearing prayer shawls and holding a Torah scroll — rituals seen by many Orthodox Jews as reserved for men only.

Video footage on the YNet news site showed the words "end the obscene pictures" spray-painted on a bus.

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1. Fundies in every form

are a boil on the ass of humanity.

[RKP5637]

2. Yep, they are all over the place, SOS, just different names, locations and religions, but the

SOS. Religion IMO is filled with bigots, hypocrites and control freaks. And for some, it's big $$$$$'s and ego worship!

[arcane1]

6. Indeed.

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4. +1000

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9. +1000 n/t

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3. Man is the only animal to have found the One True God....several of them. Mark Twain

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5. Can the world please take all of the religulously insane,

Muslim, Xtian, Jewish, whomever, and forcibly coop them up in one place - as big as it takes, make sure that they are all armed to the teeth and unable to escape? They will eventually all kill each other, much to the betterment of everyone else on the planet. Then on to topple and smash the citadels of the super-rich.

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It's worked out so well for the wimmins.

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10. i wonder if there is something in the water

of the mideast? lack of flouride?