Naomi Ragen is an American-born novelist, playwright and journalist who has lived in Jerusalem since 1971 and who writes regularly in the Jerusalem Post and to her mailing list about Israel and Jewish issues. Naomi has published nine internationally best selling novels, and is the author of a hit play (Women's Minyan) which has been performed more than 500 times in Israel's National Theatre (Habimah) as well as in the United States and Argentina. She is a tireless advocate for women's rights in Israel, campaigning against gender segregation on Israeli buses and bias in rabbinical courts.
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Women to the Back of the Bus!!

The latest craze - modesty glasses for Orthodox Jewish men so they won't be able to see women.

I Am Not Sitting in the Back of the Bus - Why, together with other women, I filed suit to put an end to the primitive and degrading gender-segregated bus lines now popping up all over Israel.

Read my original article about how I was attacked by a religious fanatic because I refused to move to the back (the "women's section") of a Jerusalem bus.

Read about an American woman beaten because she refused to move to the back of a Jerusalem bus.

Read my article explaining why segregated buses are just the latest crazy idea of fanatics with too much free time on their hands.

Read about haredi women who want to sit with their families and don't want to be forced to crowd together in the back of the bus.

Israel Bus Rule Sparks Religious Row - How the liberal western media perceive all this fanaticism.

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Women to the Back of the Bus

August 2012 – The latest craze – new modesty glasses for Orthodox Jewish men so they won’t see women.

October 2011 – I returned to the scene of the crime.

In January 2011, Israel’s Supreme Court declared, in response to a suit filed by myself and several other women, gender segregation on buses to be illegal, but said that women may continue to “voluntarily” move to the back of the bus.

An interview with the National Council of Jewish Women on the issue.

I Am Not Sitting in the Back of the Bus (published in the Jewish Chronicle on 23 Feb 2007) – Why, together with other women, I filed suit to put an end to the primitive and degrading gender-segregated bus lines now popping up all over Israel.

Read my original article about how I was attacked by a religious fanatic because I refused to move to the back (the “women’s section”) of a Jerusalem bus.

Read about an American woman beaten because she refused to move to the back of a Jerusalem bus.

Read NPR’s article about the lawsuit.

Read my article explaining why segregated buses are just the latest crazy idea of fanatics with too much free time on their hands.

Read about haredi women who want to sit with their families and don’t want to be forced to crowd together in the back of the bus.

Israel Bus Rule Sparks Religious Row – How the liberal western media perceive all this fanaticism.