Posted on 08/01/2013 11:44:00 AM PDT by LonelyCon
Two buses were stoned by a group of Haredim in Beit Shemesh on Wednesday after the police arrested a man and woman who had asked a female passenger to move to the back of the bus.
The incident began on a No. 497 bus from Beit Shemesh to Bnei Brak, which is run as a mehadrin line on which men and women sit separately. Under a ruling by the High Court of Justice in 2011, such seating is strictly voluntary.
According to passengers on the bus, one of the female passengers asked a woman who was sitting at the front of the bus to move to the rear. While the seated woman did not object, the driver - who heard the conversation - summoned police, who detained the woman who had made the request and her husband, and the bus continued on its way.
When news of the incident spread, groups of ultra-Orthodox youth stoned two local buses. Moshe Schuman was a passenger on one of them, the No. 417 from Ramat Beit Shemesh to Jerusalem.
“The bus was full because of the vacation,” Schuman said. “When the driver stopped at a stop, four people in Haredi dress blocked the bus’ path and began to bang on the windows with a hammer. The passengers got upset, there were people there with babies. The driver tried to flee the scene but he couldn’t because they were blocking the bus’ path. Only after they’d smashed all the windows and ran away was the driver able to drive to a safe spot.”
The confrontations between ultra-Orthodox and non-Haredi residents of Beit Shemesh on issues of modesty and exclusion of women has made the headlines in the past few years, ever since Haredi extremists began spitting at and harassing religious girls...
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The owner of “impure thoughts” is responsible for constraining their own thoughts.
Damn yutes
I wouldn’t say morality has always been ‘subjective’. If this is the case, morality loses all meaning beyond human delusion, and right and wrong merely become matters of taste rather than truth.
Morality is objective, but is an unclear objective to the man in search of conviction. He cannot measure it with any instrument, yet it must be as binding as the law of gravity.
The ultra-Orthodox Jews take the revealed word of God in the Tanakh to be inviolable, just as it was in ancient Israel. Nothing has changed, because God has not given them a new covenant in their view, (though I believe differently).
I am “ultra-orthodox “ and I can tell you what these violent idiots do has nothing to do with ultra orthodoxy .
Thank you for that insight. It’s good to get views on this from source. Can you think of any widespread interpretation of the Tanakh that these men could be going by?
No.
Oh come on. Lutherans do this all the time.
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