Images of women on billboards and in store windows vandalized in Israeli city Tensions between haredi Orthodox and secular residents of Ashdod have risen in recent years.
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.
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.
