This year, like last year, the neighborhood of Meah Shearim posted signs indicating that during the Sukkot celebrations, men and women would be directed to separate sidewalks. Civil rights or anti-haredi activists, depending on your perspective, petitioned the court, which ruled that the sidewalks belong to both sexes equally. The ruling was not enforced. After the holiday, a group of civil rights activists entered the neighborhood and were greeted with food and rocks thrown from the balconies. But is it right for outsiders to interfere? Reader Henya writes on the Mother in Israel Facebook page: And if people belonging to a certain community prefer separate streets or buses it is … [Read more...]