Thursday, January 12, 2012

Sexism in Israel

You would never read such an article in the US press:  "Meanwhile, the women within these communities are afraid to speak out, says Hannah Kehat, founder of Kolech, an ultraorthodox women's group. "It's social control. If they [the women] go against somebody, the [extremists] exclude them, tell people they are not religious enough, attack them, say bad things about their families," says Ms Kehat, who grew up in Mea Shearim. "It's terror," she adds."  In the US press, the article would be about how those women live in fear of Hamas firecrackers landing on them.