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Back Of The Bus

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A woman who reported a vicious attack by an ad-hoc “modesty patrol” on a Jerusalem bus last month … says she was traveling to pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City early on November 24 when a group of ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) men attacked her for refusing to move to the back of the Egged No. 2 bus … Shear, an American-Israeli woman who currently lives in Canada, says that on a recent five-week vacation to Israel, she rode the bus daily to the Old City to pray at sunrise. Though not defined … as a sex-segregated “mehadrin” bus, women usually sit in the back, while men sit in the front.

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