Women are slowly being allowed to drive in KSA. Jews town in USA will follow suit.
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Dr.Ashok Chugh <ashokchugh1@gmail.com> wrote:
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Mohamed Jaffer <mjkassam@gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Shahid
> Subject: USA Jewish Town Where Women Are Not Allowed to Drive
> USA Jewish Town Where Women Are Not Allowed to Drive
>
> This Is Not Saudi Arabia: In One New York Town, Women Aren't Allowed to
> Drive
>
> by Terry Firma - January 23, 2015
>
> Have you heard of Kiryas Joel? The overwhelmingly Haredi town of 22,000
> people, located about halfway between New York City and Poughkeepsie,
>
> ... has by far the youngest median age population of any municipality in the
> United States, and the youngest, at 13.2 years old, of any population center
> of over 5,000 residents in the United States. Residents of Kiryas Joel, like
> those of other Haredi Jewish communities, typically have large families.
>
> According to 2008 census figures, the village has the highest poverty rate
> in the nation. More than two-thirds of residents live below the federal
> poverty line and 40% receive food stamps.
>
> The rapidly-growing municipality has been in the news on and off not just
> because of that dubious distinction, but also because of the way it set up
> its school district (violating the First Amendment's Establishment Clause).
> In addition, Kiryas Joel has been dogged for 25 years by repeated
> allegations of vote-rigging and other electoral fraud perpetrated by the
> Haredi.
>
> It is in this uber-pious, ultra-conservative town that women are excluded
> from driving cars, writes Frimet Goldberger, who grew up there.
>
> In my hometown, women can't be jailed for driving like they can in Saudi
> Arabia. But driving is still forbidden. A woman who drives would risk being
> shunned, and her children expelled from the private Hasidic school. She
> could be excommunicated from the community.
>
> Growing up, it never dawned on me that driving was a possibility. No woman
> in my family or neighborhood ever did. We were taught that our tznius, our
> modesty, would be at stake.
>
> Modesty, I'm fairly certain, is a sales tactic, a guise, a ruse. These
> prohibitions are mostly about something else: control. Most likely, that's
> also the driving force (ha!) behind Saudi women not being allowed in the
> driver's seat.
>
> Goldberger concurs:
>
> For Hasidic women, being banned from the wheel means being tied to your
> husband and to your community. Driving gives you the keys to freedom and
> independence.
>
> Like Deborah Feldman, who wrote Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My
> Hasidic Roots, Frimet Goldberger had the courage and wherewithal to
> extricate herself from that miserable, oppressive way of living. In fact,
> she and her husband both got out.
>
> She now has her driver's license. May she go far.
>
> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/01/23/this-is-not-saudi-arabia-in-one-new-york-town-women-arent-allowed-to-drive
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