exclusion of women

Shlomo Artzi, left, and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin singing together on April 13, 2015. (Courtesy of the Spokesperson of the President of Israel)

Israeli charity concert that was going to exclude women performers canceled

Ezra Lemarpe’s founder, Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Firer, who had asked that no female singers be included in the show since it is against Orthodox Jewish law, requested the cancellation of the concert.

By Marcy Oster November 5, 2019 8:54 am

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South Africa Jewish umbrella sued for ban on women singing at Holocaust memorial event

Two Cape Town women and a South African diversity organization aim to overturn a decade-long prohibition before the annual event takes place on May 5.

April 19, 2016 2:47 pm

Female performers excluded from Jerusalem music festival

Three female singers were asked not to perform during a music festival that took place in the haredi Orthodox-dominated Jewish quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.

March 25, 2013 1:03 pm

Police arrest haredi Orthodox teen for harassing woman on bus

By Marcy Oster February 18, 2013 2:08 pm

Females sit in the front to protest gender-segregated buses

By Marcy Oster January 2, 2012 2:17 pm

Shlomo Artzi, left, and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin singing together on April 13, 2015. (Courtesy of the Spokesperson of the President of Israel)

Israeli charity concert that was going to exclude women performers canceled

By Marcy Oster November 5, 2019 8:54 am

South Africa Jewish umbrella sued for ban on women singing at Holocaust memorial event

April 19, 2016 2:47 pm

Female performers excluded from Jerusalem music festival

By Marcy Oster March 25, 2013 1:03 pm

Police arrest haredi Orthodox teen for harassing woman on bus

By Marcy Oster February 18, 2013 2:08 pm

Females sit in the front to protest gender-segregated buses

By Marcy Oster January 2, 2012 2:17 pm

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