After launching attacks against separate gender public events in the chareidi tzibur, the Reform Movement women’s lobby is seeking new venues to continue the war and advancing its agenda – to take on the chareidim and finding a new battlefront – the Jerusalem city libraries.
Kikar Shabbos News reports the Reform and Women’s Organizations have asked Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber and the Jerusalem Municipality to stop the separation in the “municipal library” in the chareidi neighborhoods, claiming that they have separate hours for boys and girls.
In a letter sent by the Reform Movement to Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, the city’s director-general and the city’s legal advisor wrote: “The said separation imposes rigid gender segregation on all library users. Setting separate hours for boys and girls / men and women reduces the possibility of all residents using the library on a day and time.
“In addition, the establishment of separate hours does not
allow family members, mothers and children, brothers and sisters to visit the
library together”.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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This intervention by the reform is the result of the frum community not confronting its own self inflicted problems.
When you build tall heavy walls to protect a garden, they can collapse and crush the garden they were intended to protect. What started out as a sensible fence to protect from sin( seperate swimming, dancing and praying) has been hijacked to seperate shopping, seperate sidewalks, seperate airline cabins.
Because we have not stood up to arrest this perversion of halacha, now the reform are doing it for us.
And regarding the title: “determined to attack yiddishkeit on every front”
Are you ascerting that yiddishkeit demands that families not visit a library together?
What halacha kollel have you been learning in?
THIS IS NOT TORAH JUDAISM!!!
Reform is not Judaism.
Want to know the difference between Trump and a reformi? Trump has jewish grandchildren.
This is a “hiddush”? This is news? To be news, it must be news. This is OLD NEWS. Where have you been the last 200 years? Perhaps next YWN will tell us about the Napoleonic Wars or the American Revolution????????