A New York Conservative female rabbi and attorney is calling on people to put pressure on airlines by using a U.S. federal law that forbids discrimination on flights to and from the United States.
Haaretz reports that Iris Richman, who calls herself a rabbi and founded the group Jewish Voices Together a year and a half ago to address issues of religious pluralism in Israel and the U.S., posted a callout on Facebook quoting “49 U.S. Code § 40127 – Prohibitions on discrimination a) Persons in Air Transportation.” According to this directive, she wrote, “An air carrier or foreign air carrier may not subject a person in air transportation to discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender or ancestry.”
Richman told Haaretz that she called the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Aviation Consumer Protection Division and was informed that the department was “willing to investigate any situation where any employee of a carrier, i.e steward/ess participated in asking someone to change a seat because of their gender.”
“I did the research to figure out who in the U.S. is responsible to redress this wrong,” she told Haaretz. “There are no private damages, but if the Aviation Consumer Protection Division finds that airline personnel were involved in any act of gender (or other impermissible) discrimination against a passenger – they will take action and levy a sanction against a carrier. This applies to any carrier flying to or from the U.S.”
El Al responded that it does not discriminate against passengers. An airline spokeswoman told Haaretz, “Our policy in general is to try to accommodate any customer request.”
{Noam Amdurski-Matzav.com Newscenter}
Ms. Richman is crazy.
Take em to a Din Torah. If you know what that is
Female ‘rabbis’ are like drinks for bad religion. Take one for a walk and you probably wont come back.
Their societies are not human.
Torah gives grass to them in the world to come.
Disgusting.
No she isn’t. She just hates authentic Judaism. She is desperatly trying to fit in with the surrounding culture. No one told her that if jews aren’t kodesh the gentiles will make havdolah. I guess didn’t study the holocaust. Hitler y”msh didn’care what kind of jew the ones he killed, were.
to # 1 no she is not crazy except that she is enlightened and so called educated that her hatred against the Orthodox religion is so strong that she is blinded by it a common thing among sick leftists who know better
ler her fly with Islamic Jihadist airlines
I would bet if El Al needed to
Accommodate Muslims request
To seat their women somewhere
else there would be no problem
showing them respect!!!
Instead of inflaming against Chareidim and possibly committing Messirah, let the Conservative activist fly Saudi Air!
I once heard A wise Rabbi say ” why is it that all those who speak in the name of tolerance always have the least amount of it “. I am finally starting to understand his words.
When I was a teenage girl, I was put between a middle age man and lady on a plane, and asked if I can switch seats to sit next to a female, why wasn’t a stink made that a chareidi teenage girl discriminates against middle age man
She is digging her own grave. This is the same thing the refom jews did before the war. when the goyim come after ther jew they don’t discriminate between conservative or orthodox. she’s another self hating and destructive jew
Did she have this inspiration on Yom Kippur? Perhaps Jokish Theological Seminary should advise their fellow travelers to wear full plastic bodies when in the proximity of Haraydim.
Rabbi? What Rabbi?
I daven that she do teshuvah and come to the path of Torah.
ROFL!!! Discrimination must be stamped out! All we have to do is hire a goy (I am not going to set foot in her “synagogue”….) and find out about the arrangements with regards to the restrooms. I sure hope Ms “Rabbi” did not make the stupid mistake of having “ladies” and “gentlemen” as most USA toilets are….
“Conservative is an offshoot of Reform which is the practice of something other than Judaism no matter what they call it.
This link will take you to an excellent article written and widely published many years ago:
(You may have to cut and paste)
http://www.nyjtimes.com/Heritage/News/2004/Oct/REFORMulationOfJudaism.htm
There is no such thing as a female rabbi.
This is just another lie from the peddlers of Reform a phony religion that is falsely portrayed as Judaism.
Yasher Koach to The Commish, who tells it like it is! 🙂
How can you say there is no such thing as a female Rabbi? Have you ever heard of devora? Or you don’t learn tanach in that pace you call a yeshiva?
If this had been another woman with the “Rabbi” prefix attributed to her name, this meshuga’as would not have gotten the press that this is getting.
#19 from as ignorant
are you just a troll?
or are you gonna really try that one ?