Israel now has it's own Rosa Parks!

[Whitehouse]

You think segrigation was over? Wait until religion claims it's place. This is what happened on a bus between the cities of Ashdod and Jerusalem. The link to Detroit of course is Rosa Parks who got her own bus terminal now. Maybe the same honor will be given to Tanya Rosenblit.

Jerusalem [[CNN) -- When Tanya Rosenblit boarded an inter-city bus bound for Jerusalem from her native Ashdod Friday morning, she did not anticipate the storm it would spark within Israel.The public bus she boarded normally carries ultra-Orthodox passengers and travels to an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem.As a matter of custom women sit in the back portion of the bus, because the ultra-Orthodox avoid mingling of the sexes according to their beliefs. She was the first passenger that morning on the bus and took a seat behind the driver. As the bus took on more passengers along its route, an ultra-orthodox man demanded she should sit in the back of the bus as is the custom on that route."I heard him call me 'Shikse,'" Rosenblit wrote on her Facebook page, referencing a Yiddish term for a non-Jewish woman. "He demanded I sit in the back of the bus, because Jewish men couldn't sit behind women [[!!!). I refused.""This is my home town of Ashdod, I live in an Israeli democracy, people cannot tell me where to sit on a bus."

Read the rest in the article in the first link.

By the way, I see a direct parallel between the current pick of the litter of the Republican candidates for the presidency. Both Orthodox Jews an Republican fanatical nutcases [[I have no other word for it want generally secular citizens to adopt their religious beliefs and doctrines.