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November 12, 2011

LA Times: As ultra-Orthodox flex muscle, Israel feminists see a backsliding

by Edmund Sanders
Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Jerusalem -- When public buses rumble to a stop in some of Jerusalem's religious neighborhoods, women often dutifully enter by the rear door and sit in the back, leaving the front for men.

There's no law requiring the women to do so, but those who don't risk verbal taunts and intimidation.

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