El Al Airlines
El Al vows to end practice of moving women to accommodate ultra-Orthodox
By Paul O'Donnell — June 26, 2018
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Responding to growing pushback from Israeli feminists and human rights advocates, Israel’s national airline announced that it will no longer ask female passengers to move in deference to ultra-Orthodox men’s religious modesty. Anyone refusing to sit next to other passengers, El Al’s chairman said, will immediately be removed from the aircraft.
El Al is a Jewish airline
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 22, 2018
Looking for moral heroism in our time? Look no further than a bunch of El Al pilots. You read that right.
Petition: Create a seating section for ultra-Orthodox Jewish men on El Al flights
By Michele Chabin — October 1, 2014
JERUSALEM (RNS) In her Change.org petition, which had more than 2,300 signatures, a Chicago woman asks El Al why its staff permits female passengers “to be bullied, harassed, and intimidated into switching seats for which they rightfully paid.”
As French cemeteries fill up, Jews seek burial plots in the Holy Land
By Elizabeth Bryant — March 12, 2014
(RNS) Jewish-only plots in some French cemeteries -- along with their leases -- are rapidly running out.
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