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The Israeli Rosa Parks Poster
by Esther Newman-Cohen
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The Israeli Rosa Parks poster by Esther Newman-Cohen. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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In the late 1990s so-called mehadrin bus lines were created for the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community in Israel connecting their neighborhoods. Many... more
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In the late 1990s so-called mehadrin bus lines were created for the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community in Israel connecting their neighborhoods. Many women who got on these segregated buses were forced to move to the back. Such was the case in July 2004 when American-Israeli novelist Naomi Ragen unintentionally boarded a mehadrin bus and was physically threatened for refusing to give up her seat and move to the back of the bus.
In its ruling on January 6, 2011, the High Court of Israel ruled that gender segregation was illegal. However, enforcement has been problematic as seen from the following outstanding cases:
On December 17, 2011, Tanya Rosenblit, a secular Israeli woman, – nicknamed by the media as the “Israeli Rosa Parks” – refused to let an ultra-Orthodox man dictate where she could sit on a public bus traveling from Ashdod to Jerusalem. On February 17, 2013. Noa Kanteman, a 22-year-old physiotherapy student in Safed, was similarly harassed when she took an Egged publi...
About Esther Newman-Cohen
Dr. Esther Newman-Cohen is a highly creative Israeli-based artist. She engages in a wide range of artistic activity, including drawing, painting and woodcarving. Her subjects range from abstracts to realistic portraits and landscapes, done in a variety of media - pencil, ink, aquarelle, pastel, acrylic and oil. She also designs ketubot, Jewish marriage contracts, many of which are also posted on Fine Art America. Over the past five years she has added wood sculptures to her repertoire. Her first solo exhibits took place in Jerusalem, at the Alliance Francaise in 1989: "The Women of Jerusalem," in 1992 at the Gerard Behar Theater: "Flowers and Landscapes of Jerusalem," and in 2008 at the Jerusalem Botanical Garden: "Flowers: A Love Story."...
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