Gender Separation

'Heartless monsters'

Male protesters break up women's film night

A haredi women's screening of various films was disturbed by a group of men protesting gender separation.

Violent clashes at Tel Aviv prayer service

Protesters confronted worshipers who tried to pray with the traditional partition between men and women on Yom Kippur.

Court upholds Tel Aviv ban on Yom Kippur prayer partition

District Court allows municipality to ban gender partition mandate by Halakha at Dizengoff Square Yom Kippur prayers.

Court appeal against Tel Aviv:

'Are only Muslims allowed to separate prayer by gender?'

An appeal against the city of Tel Aviv would see the city's ban on gender separation for Yom Kippur street prayers declared illegal.

'We are all Rosa Parks':

Project calls on women to sit in the front of the haredi busses

The project aims to fight the alleged phenomenon of haredi gender segregated buses.

Populism in Israel? Is that where we are going?

Former Chief Rabbi's daughter calls Israel 'undemocratic state'

Israel Prize winner Rabbanit Adina Bar Shalom criticizes court decision to harm haredi public and force gender-mixed events.

Israeli court bans gender separation at Hasidic concert

Nazareth court rules that haredi concert by singer Motty Steinmetz in Afula city park cannot have gender separate seating.

Rabbi Yosef: Full gender separation in Cave of the Patriarchs

Rishon LeZion publishes letter signed by rabbis Dov Lior, Avigdor Neventzal, Shmuel Rabinowitz calling for strict separation in cave.

Haredi MK asks El Al to uphold women's rights

'There are women whose rights are trampled by fact they're forced to sit next to men,' MK Israel Eichler tells airline representatives.

Bill to forbid gender separation by service providers

Zionist Union MK Merav Michaeli submits bill prohibiting companies like El Al from acceding to haredi requests to separate genders.

Provocation in Rabin Square

Police repulse demonstrators seeking to enter men's compound in protest against separation at Chabad event in heart of Tel Aviv.

Tel Aviv Chabad event will take place - with gender separation

Tel Aviv district court rules on petition to enable 'Messiah in the Square' event in Tel Aviv to be held with gender separation.

Zandberg: 'We'll propose bill against gender separation'

Meretz disappointed by court allowing separated Chabad event: 'Attempt to darken Tel Aviv, stronghold of liberalism, won't be tolerated.'

Deputy AG Dina Zilber:

'We will formulate rules for gender separation in public domain'

MK Gafni accepts AG request to postpone discussion on segregation at public events. 'Someone invented concept of excluding women,' he said.

Higher Education Council:

Gender-separate classes

Plans to establish separate classes on campuses allow possibility some non-haredi students will be affected.

Unity Day? Feminist MKs Upset over 'Degrading' Ceremony

Genderists go ballistic after organizers of joint ceremony by yeshiva and non-religious school chose not to feature female singers.

Rabbis: Paying Taxes a Mitzvah – And an Honor

Rabbinic group declares importance of paying taxes, and rejects link of gender segregation, religiosity.

Shas Minister: Gender Segregation a Problem

Shas Minister admits that local rabbis, burial groups wrongly impose strict gender separation, insult women.

'IDF Must Keep its Promises - or Hareidi Soldiers Will Leave'

A rabbi who helped found an IDF unit for hareidi soldiers accuses the army of breaking its promises; warns hareidi Jews will leave.

Gov't Says Removing Women from Outdoor Ads Violates their Honor

Advertisements featuring pictures of women must be allowed in all parts of Jerusalem, state prosecutors have announced.

Chabad Rabbi Donates Kidney, 'Act of Caring'

A Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi in New Jersey has donated his kidney to a Jewish man living on a secular moshav in Israel.

Rabbi Lau: Shouts of 'Nazi!' Cause Me Nightmares

Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau tells Ma'ariv he was shocked to see a photo of a Jewish boy wearing a yellow star in last week's hareidi protest.

UTJ Lawmaker Warns: 'Don't Enlist in IDF Yet'

A United Torah Judaism MK warns young hareidi religious men not to join IDF special programs without assurances they can observe Torah law.

Aharonovitch: 'Don't Be Afraid to File Complaints'

Public Security Minister Yitzchak Aharonovitch tells women "don't be afraid" to file complaints if they are harrassed in public venues.

Police Vow 'Zero Tolerance' on Discrimination Against Women

Israel Police Commissioner Yochanan Danino vows a "zero tolerance" policy on discrimination against women in public venues.

Livni Links Gender Segregation, 'Racist' Laws

Opposition leader Tzipi Livni says nationalist-religious radicalism is behind all the nation's political and social ills.

Hareidim Say Feminist 'Rosa Parks' Provoked Them

A woman was asked to sit in the back of a bus that serves the hareidi community. Media has field day.