Posted on 09/25/2014 11:57:16 AM PDT by redreno
An El-Al flight from New York to Tel Aviv was turned into an “11-hour nightmare” after hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish passengers refused to sit next to women.
According to those on board the flight descended into chaos because of their demands.
The flight was full with Israelis, secular, orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jews – known as Haredim – flying home to celebrate Rosh Hashanah.
Even though the passengers had been pre-assigned seats before boarding, the ultra-Orthodox Jews refused to accept the arrangements because their beliefs required that men and women were segregated
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
What is the big deal? Just ask the Jewish men to sit together. Seat assignment isn’t THAT big of a deal.
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Maybe they should make the women ride in the back of the plane?
Is this the first time any of these folks had flown? Seems to me that someone would have thought of this before getting on the plane. Perhaps the flights were booked as a group and whoever arranged the trip dropped the ball?
Headline: El-Al surprised to learn that Orthodox Jews don’t sit next to women.
I can’t believe that the guys who run El-Al flights don’t already know this. Even if they weren’t told.
And even if they screwed up and miss-assigned the seats, it should not have been a problem to change them and fix it, without making a big fuss.
I had just come off deployment & wore my uniform into church. That seemed to be the reason this good-looking chick sat down next to me and crossed her legs. I looked up to heaven & prayed,
“Lord, I thank Thee for granting Thy humble servant this vision of some of the beautiful things which Thou hast made!”
Don't know about you but I just got back from a trans-Atlantic trip and I paid a premium for a particular seat months in advance. If, without asking and explaining, someone in the airline decides differently, I should be offered alternatives.
Perhaps El Al should pre-identify its passengers (very wry smile as that is a specialty of theirs and has been for years!)
Paging Ms Parksovsky, Rosa Parksovsky! Will Rosa Parksovsky please pickup the white courtesy phone in the lobby?
On NYC bus routes through Ultra-Orthodox areas of Brooklyn there was de facto sex segregation. Women were forced to the back.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/bloomberg-responds-to-ort_n_1022174.html
Yeah. Sounds to me as if they screwed up and hired or promoted the wrong guy. This is not like them. And they also have a reputation as being one of the only airlines that efficiently weeds out terrorists. Let’s hope they don’t screw up that!
Orthodox Jews do, it’s the ULTRAs that don’t?................
Amen!
“Attention, please. If those of you unhappy with you current seat assignment would please disembark, we will accommodate your seating preferences on a future flight. Should you refuse to disembark, a contingent of IDF troops is making its way down the boarding ramp, and they will be glad to assist you with disembarkation.”
You don’t want to sit next to a woman? There’s the door...
This story is fishy... I fly El Al all the time and have never seen this. Must be a bizarre group...
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