UK: Orthodox Jewish sect bans women from driving
”UK leaders of an orthodox Jewish sect have banned women in their community from driving, saying the presence of female drivers contradicted the “traditional rules of modesty.”
Belz rabbis, of the Chasidic Jewish tradition that maintains a conservative lifestyle, sent a letter last week to Jewish families in London stating that children would be banned from schools and other educational institutions if they were driven by their mothers.
The letter, signed by leaders of Belz schools, added there had been a rise in the numbers of women driving their families around, which had led to “great resentment among parents and pupils of our institutions,” the Jewish Chronicle reports.
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