Wondering what ever happened to the
Eishet Chayil of Proverbs 31:
"Telling women they can’t drive isn’t modest, it’s alienating," she
added. "I don’t see any difference between this and the ban on driving
in Saudi Arabia. It fetishes women by saying 'we can’t see women and we
can’t look at women' and I think that is completely against Jewish
values and the Bible’s values.
The leaders of an Orthodox Jewish sect in north London have
reportedly declared that women should not be allowed to drive in a
letter sent out to the community.
Rabbis from the Belz Hasidic sect in Stamford Hill
have said women driving cars contravenes “the traditional rules of
modesty in our camp” and the conventions of hasidic institutions,
according to a report by the Jewish Chronicle.
The
letter, which was signed by Belz educational leaders and endorsed by
rabbis, also said women could be banned from their schools if their
mothers drove them from August onwards.
It cited increasing
numbers of “mothers of pupils who have started to drive” which it said
had led to “great resentment among parents of pupils of our
institutions”.
Stamford Hill's residents are predominately Hasidic
Jewish and only New York is believed to have a larger community of
Hasidic Jews outside of Israel.
Dina Brawer, UK Ambassador of the
Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, said the instructions within the
letter had no scriptural foundation and could prove debilitating for
Jewish women.
Jewish Hasidic sect in Stamford Hill 'bans' women from driving - Home News - UK - The Independent
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