Modesty Buses?

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

I wanted to get your opinions on the new 'Modesty Bus' scheme in Israel:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/6584661.stm

It is absurd and crazy and absolutely over the top of any Torah legal requirements.

The only excuse to even consider this is harrassment on busses from goons, which my daughters can attest as being, if not common, too occassional.

Otherwise the whole concept is an absolute disgrace and embarrassment to Judaism.

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Your daughters get heckled on the bus?!

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

Your daughters get heckled on the bus?!

Let's keep things in proportion. They have been through less than a handful of such minor incidents over their lifetime of bus travels but that's more than there should be. Plus they went on bus routes that were from from containing a vast amount of riff-raff. Plus they were not the most frequent bus travelers around.

Meaning that events do occur and someone in the extremly religious community may have taken this as an excuse to be "more holier than thou". An excuse, by any other name, is still an excuse.

EDIT: Suggested reading: Egged and the Taliban ("Egged" is Israel's major national bus carrier).

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

EDIT: Suggested reading: Egged and the Taliban ("Egged" is Israel's major national bus carrier).

Recent update from the same author: I Am Not Sitting at the Back of the Bus. I may not agree with 100% of what Naomi Ragen says in this article but I agree with her in spirit.