{"id":30676,"date":"2011-03-07T21:57:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T05:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=30676"},"modified":"2011-03-07T21:58:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T05:58:26","slug":"israeli-rabbi-says-women-should-not-drive-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=30676","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Rabbi Says Women Should Not Drive Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y1icnHKuntM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A Israeli rabbi has put out a religious decree banning Jewish women from driving or learning to drive. <\/p>\n<p>The influential rabbi, Avraham Yosef, has said women should not get behind a wheel unless absolutely necessary. <\/p>\n<p>His order prohibits women from driving in areas populated by ultra-orthodox Jews. <\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Yosef is the rabbi in charge the city of Holon. <\/p>\n<p>He has justified his decree by saying that driving for women does not reflect modesty or chastity, especially in cities inhabited by religious people. <\/p>\n<p>Recently, another rabbi, Shmuel Halevi, issued a similar prohibition saying the seductive appearance of women distracted men drivers, resulting in accidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Israeli rabbi has put out a religious decree banning Jewish women from driving or learning to drive. The influential rabbi, Avraham Yosef, has said women should not get behind a wheel unless absolutely necessary. His order prohibits women from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=30676\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodoxy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30678,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30676\/revisions\/30678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}